FLYING HIGH (On Howard Dean's "Sleepless Summer Tour")

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http://www.portlandmercury.com/2003-09-04/feature.html

FLYING HIGH
by Sandeep Kaushik

Howard Dean has gone from nobody to the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now he's a political rock star, and he just went on a coast-to-coast tour to prove it. Our Sandeep Kaushik tagged along for the ride.

Photos by Alice Wheeler & Jason Kaplan

For those on Howard Dean's "Sleepless Summer Tour," Sunday begins a little after 5 a.m. in a Milwaukee airport hotel, where we board the busses that take us to the chartered 737--dubbed the "Grassroots Express" by the campaign--for a flight to Boise. There, on a corner of the airport tarmac between two hangars, the former Vermont governor and surging presidential candidate delivers his standard white-hot anti-Bush stump speech before several hundred Idaho liberals.

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(They're discovering what we've known all along.
Hallelujah.)