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February 02, 2004

Richard Blow: Seeing the Signs of Dean's implosion

TOMPAINE.com - Seeing The Signs

(Richard Blow is the former executive editor of George Magazine. He is author of American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and is writing a book about Harvard University.)

Watching the death of a political campaign is a lot like rubbernecking. You know that checking out a car crash isn’t exactly healthy, but you can’t take your eyes off it.

So it is with Howard Dean’s once-unstoppable presidential race. On Jan. 28, Dean announced that he was bringing in Roy Neel, a longtime Al Gore associate, to run the campaign. Media and Internet guru Joe Trippi promptly announced his exit. Worse still, the Dean campaign was apparently broke, having burned through most of the estimated $45 million it raised. Dean has asked his 500 paid employees to work for free for the next two weeks, and is now talking about winning enough delegates to mount a convention challenge.

Stick a fork in Howard Dean—he’s done. The story of the death of his campaign can now be written. The real question is, How could the media have missed it for so long?

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