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You can't rely on low-income voters to win a national election in any large way. However Clark or Edwards would be the best choice in this area because unlike Dean and Kerry, who are silver-spoon yalies, low-income voters will have a visceral relatability to them and will therefor be more passionate about them, when they start to pay attention in large numbers

secondly, see my first response

third, very very, doubtfully. Dean's appeal is more narrow than his supporters would like to believe. You can have a big PRIMARY movement with a narrow appeal in a nation of 280 million. His supporters almost to a man, hate the war, hate Bush, believe Dean's self-proclamation that he is a shoot-from-the-hip straight-talker, believe that he's the only candidate who is a "real democrat", and ignore his inconsistensies and his being extremely political(I.E. dancing around the truth).

And fourth, Dean isn't running against the DLC. This is a ploy to exploit the false dark-horse, david vs goliath image he has been riding on all along. SOME operatives affiliated with DLC have made some offenses about him, but mostly it's been all sorts of concerned democrats, mostly traditional mainstream dems who've expressed there well-founded doubts about his general election potential.

It's all conspiracy nonsense. Dean's campaign would have you believe that the DLC is an autocratic, Freemason-like control group that may or may not be controlled by the GOP. When anybody with any insight would realize it's a PR-driven, idea-based, non-committal think tank. Of which up until he was out of office ago Dean was proudly a member. And according to his continued insistance that he is a fiscal conservative and a centrist, he would still share a philosophy with.