Reply #5: Dean's Texas Rangers [View All]

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Ross Sneyd reports for the AP on Dean's Texas Rangers-- hundreds of Texans travelling to Iowa and New Hampshire this weekend to go door-to-door for Howard Dean:

Hundreds of voters from President Bush's home state will be spending their weekend knocking on doors in Iowa and New Hampshire talking up the presidential campaign of one of his leading Democratic rivals: Howard Dean....

As many as 475 Texans are boarding planes from Austin, Dallas and Houston. They'll be flying to Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Manchester, N.H., respectively to talk about Bush's tenure as their governor and why they back Dean for president, campaign aides say.

They'll be staying in the homes of supporters in the two states that start the Democratic presidential nominating season next winter.

"The reason that we're going to Cedar Rapids is we love our country and we want it back," said Debbie Terwilliger of Flower Mound, Texas, a Dallas suburb. "We don't like living in a country which is being ruled through fear and paranoia. Doctor Dean offers us hope...."

At least some of the Texans also want to contrast Dean's stands with the other nine Democrats in the race.

"He was the first candidate to come out against the war and it's interesting how other candidates are trying to out-Dean Dean in that regard," said Joe Roth of Livingston in east Texas. "I'm with him till November 2004 and beyond."


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