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tulipsandroses

(5,127 posts)
6. How far we have come as a nation -A yell brought down a viable candidate
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 09:59 PM
Feb 2020

Today sexual assault and racism gets you the presidency

dware

(12,449 posts)
9. Truer words were never spoken.
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:09 PM
Feb 2020

He had a very good chance, but the RW and media made the "yell" the central theme instead of his wonderful ideas.

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
10. He already lost a state people thought he would win 38 to 18
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:10 PM
Feb 2020

If not for the scream, the story would have been his campaign's implosion.

marble falls

(57,249 posts)
12. I was surprised, but look what's raken out mostly Democrats before ...
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 11:09 PM
Feb 2020
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Michael Dukakis


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Edmund Muskie crying in the snow over the fake "Canuck letter"



McGovern with his running mate Sen Eagleton he supported 1000% tight up to replacing him after it came out that Eagleton had had electroshock.

aikoaiko

(34,184 posts)
7. IA and NH took some wind out of her sails, but it looks like she's finding her mojo again in NV
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:06 PM
Feb 2020

He post NH primary speech almost sounded like it was going to turn into a suspension speech with her throwing her weight behind AK, but it wasnt.

She received some good grassroots funding and is fighting again.

I think the prospect of a Bloomberg nomination has her ramped up.

karynnj

(59,504 posts)
8. Howard Dean lost because he and Gephardt braved in an ad war that destroyed both their campaigns
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:07 PM
Feb 2020

Meanwhile, John Kerry was steadily gaining support in Iowa. It likely did not hurt that in the last week in Iowa, on the same day, the marine whose life Kerry saved in Vietnam surprised him at an event .. And Dean was in the news because he told an elderly heckler to sit down.

Before the scream, Dean got 18 percent to Kerry's 38.

As to the media hurting Dean, it built him up in the first place. He was on 3 magazines in the same week in August 2004.

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