Dean: Dems Doomed if He Loses the Nomination...

[Kahuna]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=2043&e=4&u=/ap/20031228/ap_on_el_pr/dean

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"If I don't win the nomination, where do you think those million and a half people, half a million on the Internet, where do you think they're going to go?" he said during a meeting with reporters. "I don't know where they're going to go. They're certainly not going to vote for a conventional Washington politician."

Earth to Dean. Which risk should I take? Alienating some of your supporters by nominating you, or 20% of the entire Democratic voting block if you are? According to the latest CBS poll, 20% of Democrats will vote for Bush if you are the nominee. Based upon the 49mill votes for Gore in 2000, that could be as many as 9.8 million voters bases the 1.5 million number you bandy about.