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...Democratic race begins in earnest, it is the question not only for Kerry but for all the other candidates as well. Ever since Howard Dean started setting the pace this summer, Kerry and the other candidates began retrofitting their strategies so they might emerge as the ex-Vermont Governor's principal rival. The internal question now for all the other campaigns is, Howard and who else...
...home ground for Kerry, but he figures it is alien territory for someone else. "I'm prepared to campaign in the South," says Kerry, "and elsewhere in the country where it's viewed as being harder." Harder, that is, for Democrats--and especially for one particular Democrat from Vermont who has become the darling of the party's angry antiwar, mostly northeastern left...
...pictures in our story on Howard Dean, the shot of the candidate in his disordered Vermont kitchen got the most comments. "How could a man who lives in such an appalling mess be expected to organize our country's business?" asked an Indiana woman. More approving was a woman from New York State: "I made my campaign contribution to Dean for a lot of reasons, but I knew my choice was right when I saw the photo of his kitchen. Those counters are as cluttered as mine...
...locally, even if locally meant a large city. But in the 1970s new federal utility laws threw transmission lines open to all comers. Now utilities could get their power wherever it was cheapest, even if that meant it had to travel farther: power generated in Alabama is sold to Vermont. The nation's power grid--the vast system of lines, transformers and switching stations--was never designed to move electricity long distances, let alone "from Maine to Miami," points out Terry Boston of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...percentage point. He didn't run for a sixth term as Governor because he was planning a race for President. A good thing, since it would have been a difficult campaign. (The Democratic Lieutenant Governor, whom Dean endorsed, lost.) Civil unions hurt Democrats in the 2000 elections in Vermont, but two years later, Dean reaped the benefits: wealthy gays in the Fire Island Pines beach community off the coast of New York City were among the earliest, most generous donors to his unlikely presidential run. Dean doesn't emphasize his discomfort with gay marriage in these circles...