Reply #40: Ok. Then show me where race relations is discussed in the article. [View All]

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And if you can show it, then I'll agree that I am the one who was spun, and not you or the media.

http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4789004/22649906.html

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"We don't need to be a party that says we need to be the candidacy of the NRA. We stand up against that."

Dean has said 2000 Democratic nominee Al Gore lost the election because he failed to win Southern states, where disaffected Democrats who favor gun owners' rights were reluctant to support him.

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," Dean said Friday in a telephone interview from New Hampshire. "We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."

Dean said he answered the questionnaire while running for re-election as governor of Vermont. He has said he was never asked to sign a gun control bill during his Vermont tenure.

Dean often touts his high rating from the NRA, which he attributes to Vermont's scant gun restrictions, low crime rate and tradition as a hunting mecca.

Dean said he wanted to protect hunters' rights to use semiautomatic hunting rifles in Vermont. But the question about the ban referred both to federal and state law.