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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.
But an unusually large turnout
swarmed the caucuses around the state,
lessening the impact of Gephardt's
base. He never expanded his base; and
polls indicated he began to lose sup
port in Iowa when he began to ex
change negative attacks with former
Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.
(c) 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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