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Subject: Where Does Dean Go Now?
From:
PERRY BACON JR. [TIME reporter]
Sent:
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004 |
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Howard Dean seemed confident throughout this week, but this
loss leaves him in serious danger. He had pulled all
his resources from Feb. 3 states this week to focus
them all on New Hampshire in hopes of a win like Kerry
had in Iowa that could create momentum going into next
week. Instead, the former Governor lost badly in a
neighboring state where he once had a big lead. And in
the seven primaries on Feb. 3, none of the states are
particularly strong for Dean, especially with Kerry
having won the first two primaries. Dean aides have
said they are strongest in New Mexico and Arizona, but
Dean will go first to Michigan, which has its primary
on Feb. 7. Both the Service Employees International
Union and the The American Federation of State,
County, and Municipal Employees, the two huge labor
unions that endorsed Dean in November, are strong in
that state and Dean also hopes to do well on Feb. 7 in
Washington, where he has had more organizers than
other campaigns for months.
Dean campaign aides tried to spin their loss as a
partial comeback, saying they had been down as much as
20 early in the week but cut it to 12. But losing is
losing, and so far the Dean campaign has the most endorsements, magazine covers and
money, but zero primary wins.
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