Word: vermonters
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...more complicated at the top of the heap. Now former Vermont Governor Howard Dean leads the eight other Democrats by every measure that matters (at least until people start voting): in polls, money, organization and enthusiasm. As the Democratic front runner, with only two weeks to go before the presidential race begins in Iowa, Dean is being pummeled from every angle, and his every assertion is being examined under a microscope. In the past few weeks, he has declared that the U.S. is no safer with Saddam Hussein in captivity, mused about an "interesting theory" that President George W. Bush...
...Dean does not get many opportunities to make a diagnosis these days. Maybe that is why he responded so readily last week to an invitation to deliver one for himself. There was no examination table in the cramped six-seater jet that was taking him home to Vermont for a New Year's break. Instead Dean stretched his stocking feet into the seat across from him for a two-hour discussion of who he is and how he thinks, dissecting the instincts that have made him the one to beat for the Democratic nomination and the reasons those instincts might...
...want to understand how Howard Dean thinks, he says, it helps to look at the way he and his doctor-wife Judith Steinberg treated patients in their family practice back in Vermont. "She's very methodical. She'll exhaust all the possibilities until she gets to the one that's the most likely," he explains. "I'm intuitive, and I jump steps ahead. Part of what gets me in trouble on the stump is that I shorthand things. I know what I'm thinking, but I don't say every word of it. I was that way as a doctor...
Dean says his record in Vermont will be his armor against the Bush campaign's plans to paint him as some kind of fuzzy-headed radical (though his decision to seal some of his records is the subject of a court fight). But one question is whether voters will care more about what he did in Montpelier than what he says he will do in the White House. Dean's proudest boast is that he balanced 11 budgets in a row, and he promises to bring that same tightfistedness to Washington. But take a hard look at what...
...Vermont, Dean had a reputation for having a physician's willingness to deliver bad news without varnish or hesitation. But it is difficult to find much hard talk in his program now, apart from his plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, which in any case pleases his Democratic-primary audience. Back in the mid-1990s, he advocated curbing the growth of Medicare and putting "Social Security back on the table." Now he says he would use the bulk of the savings from repealing the tax cuts for a huge new expansion of health care, that he could balance...