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January 19, 2004

Dean-Dean, the Gettin' Spanked Machine

Wow, the rebel boy from Vermont just got his Iowa-ass handed to him:

Iowa Democrats upended the Democratic presidential race Monday night, giving Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts a strong victory and dealing an apparently fatal blow to Rep. Dick Gephardt's run for the White House.

"Iowa, I love you," a beaming Kerry told supporters, dubbing himself the "comeback Kerry."

Howard Dean, widely viewed as the national front-runner going into the caucuses, was in third place, a finish that drains him of momentum going into next week's New Hampshire primary.

I think I have two questions to come out of this finish:

1) How will Dean's third place finish affect the nomination and, thus, the Presidential election of 2004? On that topic, why didn't Dean do better? Is this a case of the internet-generation being all about activism so long as they don't actually have to do anything other than point and click their opinion?

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2) How the hell did Edwards do so well? Did someone sell their soul to Satan? At least Kucinich, promised a win by his magical fairy godmother, trailed badly.

"Life will go on because this campaign was never about me," a somber Gephardt told supporters Monday night, and he promised to support the party nominee.

Um, yeah, Dick, that 11% kind of indicates it wasn't about you. Thanks for noticing the obvious. Moving right along...

...next stop, New Hampshire. This is going to be fun interesting.