OSHKOSH, Wis. – Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean campaigned yesterday at an old opera house where supporters said his message needs to be heard despite his failure to win a single primary in 14 tries thus far.
Facing polls that show him trailing Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry by more than 30 percentage points, Dean urged voters to take a second look at his candidacy based on his record as governor and his early opposition to Bush administration policies, including the war in Iraq.
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Here and later before a friendly crowd made up largely of students on the the University of Wisconsin Madison campus, Dean pointed to his successes in Vermont at providing health insurance coverage for nearly all children and for the working poor.
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He said Democrats and Republicans in Washington "haven't delivered because they are more beholden to the AMA and the HMOs and the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical companies than they are to the American people."
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"The way to beat George Bush, whose White House is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America, is with a candidate from outside Washington," Dean said. "We won't represent real change in America this fall if we nominate somebody who is a fixture and an insider in Washington, D.C."
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