Reply #114: No other candidate the Democrats had

[Nicholas_J]

could have done any better. From the beginning of the race all polls showed Kerry and perhaps WEsley Clark as being the only two candidates capable of getting within a few percentage points of Bush. THe best Den did in any poll when compared with Bush was 38 percent. Mosat other polls showed that if he had been candidate he trailed Bush by something in the area of 20 percentage points. Also showed the largest percentage of Democrats who would defect to vote for Bush if he had been the nominee, by a factor of 2. @0 percent of likely voters said that if Dean was the nominee that would vorte for Bush. Not good odds. All other candidates came closer, none had a statistical chance of breating Bush. Wesley Clark fell just outside of the Statistical margin but oinly by one point.

All of this sour grapes support of another candidate is just that. No evidence of any kind that there boy would have won. A lot of evidence that the results would have been total catastrophe for the Democratic Party. Dean lost for a very good reason. He was not seen as being presidential material. By millions.