Health and prosperity at heart of Dean campaign (Fin. Times 1/28)

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Health and prosperity at heart of Dean campaign
By Deborah McGregor in Manchester, New Hampshire
Published: January 28 2004 19:54 | Last Updated: January 28 2004 19:54

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"We have the resources to compete in all 50 states," says Jay Carson, a spokesman for Mr Dean. That will now become a brutal test of survival as the race heads south and west in the coming weeks.

The one thing Mr Dean may now have going for him is that Mr Kerry's frontrunner status means the Massachusetts senator is likely to attract the kind of scrutiny formerly reserved for the feisty doctor. And that gives hope to Mr Dean's most ardent supporters.

"This guy is going to pull out of this," says Jim Casey, New Hampshire's commissioner of labour, who worked hard for Mr Dean in the state. "For the last three months he had a target on his back. Every candidate in the race dragged him down. I believe now that target is off his back."

What Mr Dean clearly needs, above all, is a clear victory in a significant state in the next two weeks. And it will take more than cheers and applause to get him there. As Mr Stern put it simply: "He needs to win a state."

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he has the $$ resources and the message... and he's mapping the attack.

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1. nobody matches the Dr. on message and passion..and this is what we need