Dean's Tour De Force Has Edge In Primaries

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/24/MNGL939B0C1.DTL&type=printable

Some excerpts:


"I've never seen a crowd like this,'' said New England College Sociology Professor Dennis Kalob, as Dean visited the school last week. "It's not an ordinary campaign; it has become a mass social movement.''"



"It explains why Norton, a retired flight attendant from Oakland, decided to pack up her home in Oakland and travel across the country after hearing Dean speak.

"I haven't been so inspired by a politician since John Kennedy,'' said Norton, who is bunking in a home of a New Hampshire legislator. "I don't see him as angry. I see him as indignant. He says what I feel.''"


"He rarely smiles during his 30-minute stump speech, which he delivers without notes. He does not make small talk, does not open with cute quips and does not engage in self-deprecating humor. He does not talk about himself, nor does he tell members of the audience how wonderful their questions are. He does not pretend to feel their pain.

"Dean is more explicitly contrarian than any of the rest of them,'' said Dean Spiliotes, a professor of politics at Saint Anselm College, which hosts the New Hampshire Institute of Politics. And many see his unvarnished delivery as more genuine than the rest."



"Some people say he's angry,'' said Sheila Murray, a 58-year-old children's librarian from Salem. "Well damn it. So am I.''

"Some people say he's angry,'' said Sheila Murray, a 58-year-old children's librarian from Salem. "Well damn it. So am I."