Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Count the ways caucus went wrong

"Kucinich, like Dean, has campaigned primarily on having opposed the Iraq war. All the other Iowa front-runners supported it. Despite the Iowa caucuses' reputation for being a thoughtful, deliberative process in which people talk and change each other's minds, there was almost no deliberation or discussion. Kucinich supporters and undecideds followed Edwards after hearing only a cursory reading of a few Edwards positions from a campaign brochure. Apparently Kucinich's competitiveness toward Dean overrides even his core message."

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