How Dean Lost Iowa

[capriccio]

ABC's The NOTE is gushing over an upcoming Roger Simon piece in US News & World report on how the Dean campaign lost Iowa. The excerpts provided offer some interesting and instructive insights (especially for those who might wish to work for another insurgency campaign in the future). Not recommended for those who might be inflamed by the following:

"But you can't blame the media for the downfall of Dean. The Deaniacs were among the least likely people on the planet to believe or care what the media thought, anyway. And you can't blame the Internet -- the Internet helped Dean get as far as he got. But Dean needed a Plan B and he didn't have one because his organization was having a tough enough time executing Plan A."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

[Cheswick2.0]

1. lol, yeah right

It has nothing to do with Dean saying he was going to break up the media conglomerate and then being crucified in the press. :eyes:
Dean should never have said that, he should have just done it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Thanks Cheswick

That's always what I've said.

It was the media and those fucking orange hats. People could see us coming a mile away and started getting really annoyed by us since we were everywhere. That was money that could have been better spent elsewhere.

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[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

2. But, but...

This is just the media saying that the media is not to blame. So it is the media after all. Media! Media! Media!

It couldn't be that the voters preferred Kerry and Edwards.

[NYCGirl]

4. Just want to point out something

before the usual Dean-bashing suspects show up on this thread...

Dean is man enough to take total responsibility for his and his campaign's problems in the primaries.

Would anyone in the current administration do that?

Entire article:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001955086_dean130.html

Excerpt:
Dean took responsibility for every action that led to his failed candidacy. "I will take all the blame," he said. "I oversaw those decisions, and I accepted them and I approved them."

The former Vermont governor said he wished he had had better debate preparation and more media training. Staff members were spread too thin and handled the press poorly, he said.