Dean endorsements were a ruse.

[GreenGreenLimaBean]

Heres the theory:

Gore, Bradley, Carter(somewhat), and all the endorsements for Dean
were used to isolate Kerry from the Dems that the GOP loves to target,
leaving Kerry as the outside the Dem mainstream candidate. The GOP
would love to link Kerry to Gore and the rest, but now are left
going after Kerry and not his endorsers. This may not have been
what actually happened, but the practical effect is the same.

[Namvet04]

1. Do endorsements work anymore is the question?

Clinton had not helped many and he is so popular. I thought for sure Harkin would make the difference with Iowa voters for Dean.

Dean made a really big mistake with how he handled carter and I think that really hurt him. It made him look like most people who run for office. He was different until then. We all know he did not go to church and then to leave Iowa to fly to Ga to go to church was funny.

[SheilaT]

2. Perhaps I'm naive,

but I think that people endorse the candidate they sincerely believe in, rather than as some part of a concerted campaign to get someone else nominated.

And I'm not convinced that endorsements matter that much. Speaking for myself, if someone I admire endorses my favorite candidate, I'm pleased, but an endorsement by someone I admire of another candidate does NOT move me to change my mind about who I support. Perhaps if I were genuinely undecided it would matter, but since I'm not it doesn't.

[Bucky]

4. Sadly, you are neither naive nor paranoid

But I'm glad you're a Democrat. I'm not that big a Madonna fan and I find Ted Danson downright annoying. But I'm still voting for Clark, despite the endorsement of Howard Dean by my personal hero, Ann Richards.

[xultar]

3. Whaddaya mean about Carter somewhat? That was not

an endorsement. Especially if you consider he went to church with Clark and Andrew young a coupla weeks earlier.

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