Reply #33: so here is the Dean campaign mindset [View All]

the dozens if not hundreds of elite right-wing voices who've expressed there undying hope that Dean is nominee - - they are all using reverse psychology because they really fear him. But the one LEAKED memo expressing a perception of strength from a Dean challenge, that comes out the peak of Dean's surge, that's the gospel truth about what they rally believe.

The democratic base is segmented and diverse. it's about a third to 2/5ths anti-iraq-war, about a third to a quarter on the fence, and about a quarter in support of the war.

Raising income taxes on the middle-class is not the majority opinion. Angry white Yale's are not the dominant group. and really Dean isn't exciting the party base at all based on his campaign's own insistance that he's bringing new people to politcs.

Dean would excite the anti-war, Bush-is-evil bloc, but considering they don't have almost any potential of going the other way, it's rediculous to place more importance of them than white, college educated, middle class, suburban moms and dads who regard themselves as independants- - the people who have for some time, and will for a very long time, decide national elections.