So dose not being in Congress help or hurt Dean?

[Alex146]

?

[NewJerseyDem]

1. It helps

It made it so he doesn't have a record like most of the other candidates. He didn't have to vote on NAFTA or the war or other issues that are being used against the other candidates. That is why governors get elected president and senators don't.

[eileen_d]

2. It's one of the reasons he's ahead

If Dean had been in Congress, given his record in Vermont, we might all be calling him a Bush-lite-cockroach.

:shrug:

[Alex146]

3. Same is true for Clark I guess

[LiberalBushFan]

5. but Clark didn't run on

"screw these Congress cockroaches"
so the same is not true for Clark.

[Alex146]

6. yes, but he has no record

[eileen_d]

7. Given Clark's record in Vermont...

hahahahahahaha

I say Dean, you say Clark
Dean! Clark! Dean! Clark!
I say Dean, you say Clark
Dean! Clark! Dean! Clark!
Now throw your hands in the air
And wave 'em like you just don't care
Somebody say hell yeah!
Hell yeah! And ya don't STOP!

[LiberalBushFan]

4. for sure

And I strongly doubt he would have voted no on the IWR.

[maxr4clark]

8. Neither, because his main competition wasn't either

Neither Clark nor Bush were in Congress. Maybe it helped Dean versus Kerry or Lieberman or Gephardt, but it won't count for much from here on in.

[LiberalBushFan]

9. true, his main competition isn't in Congress at the moment

but he himself would never have become a main competitor without trashing Congress-critters