Kerry's Victory Lap (TNR Campaign Journal)

[windansea]

KERRY ON: Des Moines, Iowa to Manchester, New Hampshire

Howard Dean is on the line. "Governor?" asks John Kerry's body man Marvin Nicholson, holding a silver flip phone up to his ear and flashing a giant, toothy grin to me and half a dozen Kerry supporters riding an elevator up to the eleventh floor of the Hotel Fort Des Moines. It's about 8:50 p.m. last night, and Howard Dean is calling John Kerry to concede. He has to wait a little longer. "I'll have the senator on the phone in two minutes," Marvin says politely. He exits the elevator, and walks down the hall to suite 1014, where Kerry is sitting with his family. "Senator, Governor Dean is on the phone."

"Thank you very much," says Kerry, taking the phone. He walks into the bedroom alone, and closes the door behind him.

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http://www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1223

[windansea]

1. kick

:dem:

[funky_bug]

2. Good article!

Nice to note when our candidates don't gloat.

[windansea]

3. yes...Kerry is very classy

especially when you look at all those who wrote him off

[flpoljunkie]

4. Compelling reading from Ryan Lizza's campaign journal. Thanks, windansea.

Well worth reading. Terrific that Kerry carried ALL the college precincts!

[windansea]

5. pretty amazing huh??

:)

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Kerry winning on campus?

Awesome.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

6. For once The New Republican is not bashing a Dem!

.

[blm]

8. What can they say, now? Kerry proved EVERY ONE of them wrong.

Didn't he?

[windansea]

9. yep

quite a few pundits are eating their hats this week

haven't seen any ketchup jokes lately