Another week of campaigning, and another candidate bites the dust! Wesley Clark ducked out of the race last night after he came in third in both Virginia and Tennessee. Well, John Kerry claimed a decisive win and proved that he can go into a Southern state and appeal to young moderates and take away vote from Edwards. He was the big loser this week. Perhaps Clark took away several of his votes, but he failed to make any headway against Kerry. His days are numbered.
Howard Dean was virtually absent in the South and instead concentrated on the Midwest, specifically Wisconsin... a state which he said that if he didn't win, he would quit the race, but then backed off. Dean got good news when local labor unions in Wisconsin threw their support behind him. He's all pissed off that one of Kerry's supporters had been financing anti-Dean ads.
So as Kerry leaps in front of the pack looking ahead to a two man race. The Democrats have been attacking Bush, specifically his military service record during Vietnam, which is ridiculous that they are focusing on a topic that no one really cares about. In spite, the White House released Bush's dental records from 1973!
Will Dean pick up some ground and make a run? 70% of the delegates are elected after March 2... so if he can win Wisconsin, he'll stick it out. Kerry has not been raked over the coals like Dean and Bush (back in 2000), so he really hasn't been heavily scrutinized. But it appears that his support is less for him and more a vote against Bush.
Related links:
1. Old Harvard Crimson Interview Reveals A More Radical John Kerry... where the Crimson reported Kerry called for U.N. control of troops in 1970. Here's a bit:
“I’m an internationalist,” Kerry told The Crimson. “I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.” Kerry said he wanted “to almost eliminate CIA activity. The CIA is fighting its own war in Laos and nobody seems to care.”
2. Delegates Scorecard
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