Did Dean put all his eggs in one basket ?

[kentuck]

Did he go into Iowa and NH with the belief that he would wipe out all the competition in those two states and then would have the momentum and could raise the money for the other primaries? In hindsight, was this a mistake of historical proportion?

Although he is campaigning in Michigan and Washington, and if wins those two states, will he be back in the hunt? What primaries follow MI and WA ? Is it a mistake for him to write off every state next Tuesday and not even pay a visit? Any realistic thoughts about this?

[jean]

1. Read the whole strategy, in Roy Neel's own words

He posted this yesterday at Blog for America:

Roy Neel: Where We Go From Here

[sangha]

7. It says nothing about NH and IA strategy

.

[arewethereyet]

2. that would seem to clearly be the case

as did Kerry.

Unfortunately for Dr Dean, he tripped several times and his basket of eggs went everywhere. And the uh, emotional outburst, was the least of his problems.

[ibegurpard]

3. The golden goose ain't dead yet

[SheilaT]

4. No. He did not go into

Iowa and NH assuming he'd win there and eliminate all the competition. He's always assumed he'd be in it for the long haul and has planned his campaign accordingly.

Keep in mind that when he started his intention was simply to get his ideas in front of the voters, and then he started being successful beyond his wildest dreams. It was the media that anointed him front runner, perhaps assuring that the voters would say to themselves, Don't tell me who the nominee is already, I'm going to vote the way I want to vote."

Do not count him out yet. Only about ten percent of all the delegates will have been chosen after this coming Tuesday. None of the large states (Michigan, NY, California, Texas, Pennsylvania) will have been involved yet. There's still a long way to go.

[Padraig18]

5. How many cliches will fit in one thread?

Anyone want to guess?

[janx]

12. Political boards are probably the most cliche-ridden boards

on the Net. ;-)

What's worse is that they're often the SAME cliches over and over again...

[ACPS65]

6. Yes.

Now he has no hope, polling 2nd or 3rd or 4th in every other state. Dean is so....2003.

[genius]

8. I think Bush will use this to say he's bad on the economy.

I don't think Dean can sell his economics to the American people any more.

[sangha]

9. Yes he did, but he didn't expect to win both

He hoped to win both, because it's probably the only way he could get enough momentum to possible win the nomination

[bloom]

10. I don't know

apparently he had bad ads there, Iowa and NH. But I didn't see them and most people didn't see them - so that could be good.

I think he should make appearances in all the states. I think he had interviews or something to be shown in the various localities. I don't think he should write them off.

If he gets his act together and gets some better ads and such - well, I think he can learn from it and go on.

[DjTj]

11. No - he actually spent more money nationwide than anyone else...

Dean has more organization in all 50 states than any other candidate.

Kerry put all his eggs in the Iowa and NH basket and Kerry won that gamble.