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...vote to whoever the Democratic nominee is. My position is that of many Dean supporters, if we are forced to choose between Kerry and Bush. A candidate will never inherit my vote; he must earn it. My vote is priceless; it is too important to give away. CHARLES GRAPSKI Gainesville...
...just as many others say only Dean got them interested in politics and they're not going to throw themselves into campaigning for the nominee just because he has a D beside his name. Charlie Grapski, a doctoral student at the University of Florida, says he could "hold his nose" and vote for Kerry, but that would be the extent of his involvement. "There's nobody in the race [for whom] I will do what I did for Howard Dean, because they're all part of the politics of the past. They're part of the problem...
...Dean campaign is also showing signs that, as a self-invented community, it has a life of its own. If Dean doesn't succeed, Grapski says he and other bloggers he met while he was volunteering for Dean in Iowa are already planning a website and an email list for after the campaign ends so they can stay in touch with other Deaniacs and raise money for candidates they discover in the future. "We understand we have to build ourselves as a movement regardless of the outcome of the elections," says Grapski. Others are not so sure they want...
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