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Two days after Iowa voters knocked the wind out of his high-flying candidacy, Dean retreated to his Vermont home to recuperate from a nagging cough, deep congestion and sheer exhaustion from the most chaotic and trying days of his campaign. Less than a week before the presidential primary, his troubles were noted by rivals and, perhaps more important, featured in the opening moments of the nightly news.
"Once the front-runner," the anchor intoned, "now he's trying to stop the bleeding."
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On a day already long with concern for the Dean campaign, former U.S. Sen. John Durkin, a Manchester attorney
, withdrew his endorsement. Late Wednesday, a Dean spokeswoman touted support from other prominent Democrats and said Durkin "has the right to endorse whomever he likes."
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In the three days leading up to the Iowa caucuses, Dean's favorable rating among New Hampshire voters dropped from 59 percent to 39 percent in a sample of 302 voters Tuesday, according to Dick Bennett of the American Research Group of Manchester. One reason, he said, was that voters not only found the remarks unpresidential but they only built on a nagging concern about his temperament.
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