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Nation & World News Iowa caucuses: Dean drops from first to third Dean says he will forge ahead despite the poor reception from Iowa caucuses Monday By Thomas Fitzgerald Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — For mer Vermont Gov. Howard Dean went from a dominant position over the summer to a weak third-place finish in Monday night's Iowa caucuses. Trailing Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Dean immediately went on the airwaves to try to put the best face on a disaster. "I guess we got winnowed in," Dean said on CNN. "We're just glad to get our ticket punched in Iowa. On to New Hampshire." Regardless of the third-place finish, strategists said, Dean has more than $30 million and enough of a grass-roots net work from his Internet-based campaign to compete for a long time into the next round of nominating contests. "Some of these guys are not com ing out of here, but for us it's just the beginning of a long campaign," said Steve McMahon, Dean's media con sultant. "We're going to spread the field on these guys fast. Seven states in the next two weeks — you've got to have money. We have a base, we have money and we're going to open a can of whup-ass on these guys." The capture of Saddam Hussein drained some of the potency from the antiwar message that catapulted Dean to the top of the field, and his gaffes piled up. He said that the United States wasn't any safer with Hussein in custody, called the centrist Democratic Leader ship Council that spawned Bill Clinton "the Republican wing of the Democrat ic Party" and whined that party Chair man Terry McAuliffe wasn't reining in unfair attacks from his rivals. Then, last Saturday, Dean shouted down a GOP protester who chided him for bashing President Bush — an inci dent that got a lot of airtime in Iowa and may have crystallized perceptions that Dean was arrogant and intemperate. Once Dean became the presumptive front-runner, Kerry and Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt attacked him as a gaffe prone likely loser who would raise taxes on the middle class with his promise to repeal the Bush tax cuts and who was lukewarm to Medicare Fired up, Dean began last week attacking them and Ed wards as weak-kneed Democrats who wouldn't stand up to Bush against the Iraq war. He turned populist, telling Iowans they had the power to "take back the country" from "special inter ests and Washington insiders." (c) 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Edwards will work to snare Southern vote after Iowa Edwards predicts his second place Iowa finish will fuel his campaign in New Hampshire By Jim Morrill Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) DES MOINES, Iowa — A jubilant Sen. John Edwards, whom polls showed lagging in single digits just three weeks ago, predicted his strong second-place finish in Iowa's Democratic caucuses would fuel his presidential campaign heading into next week's New Hampshire primary. "No one expected this to happen," the North Carolina Democrat told re porters in his Des Moines hotel suite. "It's a direct result of people responding to this positive message of hope It will propel us going into other elections." Early results showed Edwards win ning 32 percent, trailing Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts by six points. But he ran far ahead of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, both of whom had led Iowa polls for months. Monday's vote marked a remarkable turnaround for a campaign that as re cently as last month seemed stuck be hind better-known rivals. "What happened in the last two weeks in this campaign is just phenom enal, " Edwards said. He wasted no time trying to capital ize on the showing flying late Monday night to New Hampshire, which holds its primary next Tuesday. One obstacle facing Edwards in New Hampshire is retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who did not compete in Iowa. Clark has climbed in polls in New Hampshire and stepped up his cam paign in South Carolina, whose Feb. 3 primary is considered a must-win for Edwards, who was bom there. Edwards began drawing distinctions with Clark before the final results were in Monday. Clark, who grew up in Arkansas, was bom in Chicago. "I grew up in the rural South," Edwards said. "Having dealt every day with the problems Southerners face, I am intimately familiar with their problems. ... Gen. Clark comes from another place." Edwards also chided Clark and Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut for not running in Iowa. "I didn't walk away, I stayed here and fought," Edwards said. (c) 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Gephardt plans to leave race after dramatic loss in caucus Rep. Dick Gephardt's Iowa defeat effectively ends his presidential campaign, say campaign sources By Matt Stearns Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) DES MOINES, Iowa — Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri went home Mon day night for the wake. Shortly after conceding defeat in the Iowa caucuses on which he had banked his second presidential campaign, Gephardt was scheduled to board a char tered flight to his hometown of St Louis. Gephardt 62, will drop out of the race at a Tuesday morning press conference, according to campaign sources, ending his 37-year political career and his two decade dream of the presidency "We did the best we could," Gephardt said as he entered the hotel that served as his caucus-night headquarters. Gephardt's loss in Iowa — a state in which he had guaranteed a victory that would launch him on the path to the Democratic presidential nomination — was total and unrelenting. In some precincts, he did not meet the 15 per cent viability threshold. In one Iowa City precinct, Gephardt had but five supporters. Retired general Wesley Clark, who did not compete in Iowa, had 30 supporters there. Even before the voting, the cam paign had begun to take on a bittersweet feel. A Sunday evening rally felt more like an elegy as Gephardt thanked his supporters and introduced onstage his entire extended family, some of whom were misty-eyed. The campaign was expecting a turnout in the range of about 100,000 voters, and Gephardt had said he thought he needed 30,000 to 40,000 to win. A cadre of5,000 volunteers — in cluding 2,000 from out-of-state — was brought in to rouse the trade unionists and elderly, the voters to whom Gephardt had tailored his pitch. 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