Reply #29: All it takes.. [View All]

[tedoll78]

is one slip-up. Dean's teflon is definitely being tested right now, and he's passing famously. It's very reassuring, should he get the nomination.

Still, I think Dean has a ticket to the final round, and that's all. The other 5 major candidates are fighting for the one other ticket. The new WSJ/NBC poll out today shows Clark at 17%, Dean at 15%, so it's still way too early.

I seriously wonder though.. if Dean does win the nomination, there are two paths that the media could choose from.

1) David Slays Goliath - a true American story: governor of small state with a next-to-nothing chance of being elected President slays allegedly popular wartime commander-in-chief. It'd make for fascinating political drama, and this could be how the media pays its penance for the past three years.

2) A Grand Set-Up - Dean is promoted in the media, only to be slaughtered himself. Basically, follow the money from the media conglomerates to the GOP, watch the GOP bait them with promises of more good de-regulation in exchange for a slaying.

I'm scared of #2, but I'd LOVE a #1.