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12-28-2003, 10:10 PM
Dean: Dems Doomed if He Loses Nomination
Mike Glover
AP
Yahoo News
DES MOINES, Iowa - Howard Dean (news - web sites) said Sunday that the hundreds of thousands of people drawn to politics by his campaign may stay home if he doesn't win the Democratic presidential nomination, dooming the Democratic Party in the fall campaign against President Bush (news - web sites).
"If I don't win the nomination, where do you think those million and a half people, half a million on the Internet, where do you think they're going to go?" he said during a meeting with reporters. "I don't know where they're going to go. They're certainly not going to vote for a conventional Washington politician."
Some of Dean's eight rivals for the Democratic nomination, as well as other Democratic insiders, have argued that the former Vermont governor is too liberal to run against Bush.
More (http://story.news.yahoo.com /news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=2043&e=4&u=/ap/20031228/ap_on_el_pr/dean)
Mike Glover
AP
Yahoo News
DES MOINES, Iowa - Howard Dean (news - web sites) said Sunday that the hundreds of thousands of people drawn to politics by his campaign may stay home if he doesn't win the Democratic presidential nomination, dooming the Democratic Party in the fall campaign against President Bush (news - web sites).
"If I don't win the nomination, where do you think those million and a half people, half a million on the Internet, where do you think they're going to go?" he said during a meeting with reporters. "I don't know where they're going to go. They're certainly not going to vote for a conventional Washington politician."
Some of Dean's eight rivals for the Democratic nomination, as well as other Democratic insiders, have argued that the former Vermont governor is too liberal to run against Bush.
More (http://story.news.yahoo.com /news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=2043&e=4&u=/ap/20031228/ap_on_el_pr/dean)