Reply #10: I think that everyone agrees that Dean galvanized many voters [View All]

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especially young ones and made the process interesting and having many wanting to participate.

However, trail blazers not necessarily make good governors. Politics is the art of compromise and I think that it would be very difficult for a maverick to govern. Would have been different if, say, 60% of the voters were democrats and if the house had a comfortable majority of Democrats. But the way the country is evenly divided - and we can discuss this on a different thread - we cannot afford to have Dean as the nominee. We should, however, be grateful for him.