Reply #71: Look at Russ Feingold [View All]

[Hippo_Tron]

That's truly a guy who is willing to say what he feels and I would venture to say that he's to the left of Dean on a lot of issues. Dean also unfortunately comes with the negative media attention that followed him around last time. Don't get me wrong, I really liked and still do like Howard Dean. I think that he did a great job getting new people involved in politics and getting progressives back into the democratic party. His grassroots supporters became an invaluable asset to Kerry in the general election and are largely the reason that he got so much of the popular vote. Had there been close senate races in New York and California and no Diebold fudging with the numbers, I bet that Kerry could've beaten #'s popular vote numbers, largely thanks to that grassroots support. And even though the DLC treated him like a mortal enemy (on the flip side he treated him the same way), the party wound up adopting several of his ideas in the end because they knew that they were winning ideas.