Monday, January 19, 2004

What does it mean?

Bill Schneider on CNN noted that Dean's support started to collapse about a month ago. Although Andrew Sullivan pegged the drop to the Gore endorsment, Schneider thought that the capture of Saddam Hussein neutralized much of Dean's anti-war rhetoric. Kerry and Edwards merely filled the vacuum.

As bad as my prediction was, David Hogberg (from Iowa!) thought that Gephardt would win. Clearly, his political career is over.

One final note: although all the Dem candidates said they would roll back the Bush tax cuts, only Dean and Gephardt said they would re-raise taxes on the middle class. Dean finished a distant third and Gephardt will be an afterthought tomorrow.

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