farmbo
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Wed Oct-22-03 03:58 PM
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21. We Democrats were high fivin' in 1980 when Reagan won the GOP... |
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...nomination. He too was viewed as an easy pushover for the incumbent, owing to his seemingly out-of-the-mainstream views.
We were wrong... there was a movement afoot and we (or at least the Dems in power) didn't realize it.
This year the shoe's on the other foot. Dean's historic inroads among independents and new voters on the internet and elsewhere suggests a tausami brewing against the incumbent...if he's challenged by an outsider with new ideas.
And Howard Dean has the smarts, charisma and organizational skills's and outsider credentials to do it.
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