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...internal numbers "have the right feel," an aide says. Some of his gains are probably coming from Dean's share of the vote. Paradoxically, Dean has an interest in seeing that Kerry doesn't do too badly in Iowa. If Kerry craters, that might boost retired general Wesley Clark (who, with Senator Joseph Lieberman, opted to skip Iowa) to second in New Hampshire, which could catapult him into position as Dean's principal rival...
...want to understand why General Wesley Clark is causing heartburn in the Dean camp, it's worth studying how much the guy who is running as the un-Dean actually resembles him. Both men make the most of their hard-earned titles: the doctor and the general are conspicuously not Senators; they barely admit to being politicians at all. Their innocence of national elective experience is a virtue. Their tough temperaments and raw styles are suited to a Democratic base alienated by dignified leaders in Washington who got rolled by the Bush revolution. Neither has any embarrassing votes to explain...
...fact the spin from the Clark camp is not so much that Clark is the anti-Dean as that he is Dean 2.0smarter, faster, fewer bugs. He is protected from attacks on patriotism in ways Dean is not, even as Clark attacks President Bush for not preventing the 9/11 attacks and brags that had he been President, he would have caught Osama by now. As a centrist from Arkansas who has probably voted for as many Republicans as Democrats, Clark may be one of the few true swing voters left. Having sharpened his stump speech and softened his style...
...Clark came ripping into the race in September claiming to answer the call of desperate Democrats--particularly the pragmatists who fear Bush more than they admire Dean and don't want to waste a vote just to blow off steam. "I'm not running to bash George Bush," Clark says. "I'm running to replace him." With no campaign experience or political record to run on, Clark had to introduce himself to Democratic voters, who, he acknowledges, are less accustomed than Republicans to seeing a general in their race; he still needs to prove that he is the Democrats' Eisenhower...
...Pentagon officials threatened to block federal funding for all Harvard schools unless HLS provided the military access to OCS. Three months later, then-HLS Dean Robert C. Clark granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy...