Supporters ‘Raise the Roots’ for Howard Dean

[LuminousX]

A nice positive piece for Howard Dean. It highlights some of the reason why his message is resonating, though some of the people quoted in this article aren't fully versed on various terms like 'Universal Healthcare', I do believe when they say it they truly mean the program Dean has outlined and not true Universal Healthcare. The important elements of this piece is mainly how Dean is reaching out to people and how his 'biography' is compelling for people. I believe it also highlights the fact that the average voter doesn't care about the things we seem to dwell on here. They only care about the here and now.

I know that I have a different view of politics than others here as I see it as a true game. So when in this article I read that one of the supporters says Dean is the only candidate to be consistently against the war in Iraq, even though he isn't, I know that Dean has done a great job in getting out in front of people and pushing this meme. Others dislike that, I think it is great.

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“Dean will conjure up so many outsider images,” said Keith Gaddie, a University of Oklahoma associate professor in political science. “You’ve get some Carter in there, you get some Clinton, but Dean, more than any other, is an Internet phenomenon. He has gone to intelligent liberals and intelligent progressives through their preferred medium.”

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Claire Gordy attended the debate with friends and said two of them, a Republican and an independent, decided to register Democrat so they could vote for Dean in the Feb. 2 primary.

“He is the only candidate who was consistently against the war in Iraq, and I liked that,” Gordy said. “I also liked his support for a union for gay and lesbian couples and for universal health care.”

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“He’s going to have to get in here and, in some places like Oklahoma, show these rural democrats and Reagan democrats who believe in the best part of the New Deal that he is their candidate,” Gaddie said. “The thing will be putting foreign policy off the agenda and concentrating on the economy.”

[indigo32]

1. Oh boy some of those comments are going to set some people off

and the thing is Howard has never claimed to be the only one consistently against the war in Iraq. I don't believe he has claimed his program is Universal Healthcare either.

He talks about it alot though... how we SHOULD have it. Do you think he's trying to (along with certain other candidates)... get the issue talked about again?

[mandyky]

2. Dean knows we may have to get to Universal Healthcare

in increments, esp. if we remain a minority in Congress.

[LuminousX]

3. Exactly

one solid step at a time, make it an entitlement so it can't be undone, then reform it to simplify it.