Yell in Iowa may haunt Dean camp

By Sarah Schweitzer, Boston Globe Staff, 1/21/2004

The yell from Howard Dean was loud and guttural, seeming to come from somewhere deep within as he reacted to his third-place finish in Iowa. Yesterday, Dean found himself struggling to explain the reaction, casting it as a show of passion, while critics said it confirmed the angry streak they hear in his speeches and campaign rhetoric.

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Even the usual fount of his most stalwart support -- Blogforamerica, the Web-based dialogue box operated by his campaign -- was a flurry of comment, much of it critical. "Tonight, after the caucus results, Dean gave his speech to the troops. Yes, he was over the top, but he wasn't speaking to America, he was speaking to us, the Deaniacs," one writer penned. "Having said that, I feel I must say this. . . . He should never broadcast a speech like that again. Never. Ever. Again."

For some Dean supporters in New Hampshire, his reaction was enough to spark questions about their man, with some paying a visit to Manchester's Holiday Inn Center to hear him deliver his first post-Iowa speech.

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"He didn't do himself any favors," said Dante Scala, a professor at St. Anselm College in Manchester and author of "Stormy Weather," a book about the New Hampshire primary. "That moment crystallizes a lot about what's been said about him, that he's the angry man."

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