The thread I did on this article in LBN has been disappeared so I thought that I would repost it here and ask for your thoughts on this. The UK press has started to notice Dean a little you see.
Please feel free to tell me about all the Dem presidential candiates. Dean does look very good indeed but what about the other contenders?
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,992208,00.htmlMeet Howard Dean - or, as his growing army of supporters like to call him, 'The Real Josiah Bartlet' - Bartlet being the fictional president from Channel 4's The West Wing.
Dean, one of nine Democrats seeking nomination for the 2004 presidential election, isn't anywhere near the White House yet, but he is no longer the distant prospect once described by many observers as too left-wing to be taken seriously.
With less than six months to go before the primary season opens, Dean leapt to the front of the pack seeking to challenge George W. Bush when it emerged last week he had raised $7.1 million in campaign funding in just three months - mostly thanks to volunteers and donors who have abandoned traditional campaigning techniques and opted for the internet.
Dean, who speaks with a clarity and straightforwardness rarely found in mainstream American politics, is running under the most memorable slogan of an otherwise dreary campaign: 'I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.'
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