Can anyone catch Dean? [View All]

[Scott Lee]

GREAT Times article:

Can anyone catch Dean?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/17/timep.dean.tm/index.html


Some are saying the doctor is already in. Here's why his rivals haven't caught on, what they're doing to stop him and why he may be his own worst enemy

Over the past year, whenever one of the leading Democratic presidential candidates made his way to the downtown Washington office of Andrew Stern, head of the nation's largest union, he came away with two things: a bit of advice and the names of local officials across the country.

"I'm the voice of 1.6 million members," the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) told those who sought his endorsement. "Go talk to them." Only one candidate, Stern says, took him up on it. Howard Dean not only talked to SEIU members, he showed up on their picket line at Yale University, cheered their organizers at a San Francisco hospital and consulted the union's nurses in Iowa as he put together his proposal for solving the shortage in their profession.

"Howard Dean didn't start on top," Stern says, "but he certainly ended up on top."

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"Conventional" Democratic wisdom when it comes to running for president is not panning out this election, so far. Are other Dem candidates going to get it in time to save their own campaigns?