Reply #105: Being IN Iowa doesn't (can't) give you the full view [View All]

[Eloriel]

unless you were magically capable of being in all the caucuses at once. There were PLENTY of dirty tricks going on -- Dean supporters (No. 1 supporters) were called and told the wrong addresses to go to. They were called at all hours of the night with robocalls pretending to be from the Dean campaign -- and it pissed them off.

Etc., etc. Lots of ugly stuff went on.

The unions -- well experienced at caucusing and totally at Gephardt's disposal, did their thing too. Gephardt had been promised the VP slot or "certainly a place in the administration" in return, according to his own longtime aide (and dirty trickster), Joyce Abouzzi.

And let's not forget the backroom deal between Edwards and Kucinich over their supporters. Why Kucinich fell for that I'll never know, except that he seemed to really hate Dean and must have spread some horrible mischaracterizations about him based on all the ugliness I saw from Kucinich supporters against Dean right here at DU.

And on and on...... and on.

You may have had a nice, up close and personal look at it, but those of us back here reading the bloggers' comments on DFA (Dean For America at that time) in realtime (and shortly afterwards) got the bird's eye view.