If Sen. Barack Obama is able to prevail over Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, all of those Democrats who ripped Howard Dean's 50-state strategy over the last four years should call the head of the Democratic National Committee and offer a heartfelt apology.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said the only way his party would lose the general election is if Democrats "lose to ourselves first" because they are not unified.
Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said Friday that the party leadership has had "extensive discussions" with the campaigns of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to cool down their rhetoric.
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean accused Republican presidential front-runner John McCain of trying to skirt campaign finance laws Sunday by trying to opt out of public financing for his primary campaign.
The overwhelming election victories for Democrats shows the strong desire of citizens for a different course in Iraq and the war on terror, the Democratic National Committee chairman said Saturday, as Americans celebrated Veterans Day.
On a wretchedly hot August day outside the Caterpillar tractor plant in Montgomery, Ill., President Bush and the state's congressional delegation gather for the signing of the massive transportation bill. This is 2005, the calm before the Katrina storm, and a rigorous mountain-biking schedule has the President in top shape.
Democratic leader Howard Dean on Saturday slammed the Bush administration's war policy and offered a "tough and smart" plan for the redeployment and reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of the year.
In 2004, John Kerry spent so much of his advertising budget on broadcast-television warhorses like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune that he at least deserved a wardrobe courtesy of Botany 500. George W. Bush threw millions at TV too (he favored Cops and JAG), but his ads also appeared on cable, talk radio, blogs, the Internet and, in several cases, closed-circuit televisions above health-club treadmills. "We took one message and designed lots of different avenues to communicate it," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist in '04. "They took a lot of different messages and drove them all into one big funnel."
Leading Democrats sought Thursday to promote a specific plan for what party chairman Howard Dean called a "strategic redeployment" of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is drawing GOP fire after telling a Texas radio station that the idea the war in Iraq can be won is "just plain wrong."
If Sen. Barack Obama is able to prevail over Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, all of those Democrats who ripped Howard Dean's 50-state strategy over the last four years should call the head of the Democratic National Committee and offer a heartfelt apology.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said the only way his party would lose the general election is if Democrats "lose to ourselves first" because they are not unified.
Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said Friday that the party leadership has had "extensive discussions" with the campaigns of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to cool down their rhetoric.
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean accused Republican presidential front-runner John McCain of trying to skirt campaign finance laws Sunday by trying to opt out of public financing for his primary campaign.
The overwhelming election victories for Democrats shows the strong desire of citizens for a different course in Iraq and the war on terror, the Democratic National Committee chairman said Saturday, as Americans celebrated Veterans Day.
On a wretchedly hot August day outside the Caterpillar tractor plant in Montgomery, Ill., President Bush and the state's congressional delegation gather for the signing of the massive transportation bill. This is 2005, the calm before the Katrina storm, and a rigorous mountain-biking schedule has the President in top shape.
Democratic leader Howard Dean on Saturday slammed the Bush administration's war policy and offered a "tough and smart" plan for the redeployment and reduction of U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of the year.
In 2004, John Kerry spent so much of his advertising budget on broadcast-television warhorses like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune that he at least deserved a wardrobe courtesy of Botany 500. George W. Bush threw millions at TV too (he favored Cops and JAG), but his ads also appeared on cable, talk radio, blogs, the Internet and, in several cases, closed-circuit televisions above health-club treadmills. "We took one message and designed lots of different avenues to communicate it," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's chief strategist in '04. "They took a lot of different messages and drove them all into one big funnel."
Leading Democrats sought Thursday to promote a specific plan for what party chairman Howard Dean called a "strategic redeployment" of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is drawing GOP fire after telling a Texas radio station that the idea the war in Iraq can be won is "just plain wrong."
President Bush on Tuesday added his voice to Republican criticism of Howard Dean's statement that the United States cannot win the war in Iraq.
Perhaps it's a moving quote from a presidential speech or a memorable quip from a court of law.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said that in Hurricane Katrina's wake Americans need to face the "ugly truth" that race and class played a significant role in who lived and died.
Catching flak has always been part of a political party chairman's job description. But the fire usually comes from the other party.
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean is defending remarks he made that enraged Republican leaders this week.
After Howard Dean last weekend declared Tom DeLay ought to be in jail, a longtime Democratic operative told me the party's national chairman had momentarily ripped off his muzzle but that it soon would be restored.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on Thursday began a two-day visit to the GOP stronghold of Kansas, hoping to erase the notion that his party has surrendered so-called "red states" to Republicans.
Howard Dean, doing a victory lap last week after his final competitor for the Democratic national chairmanship dropped out, greeted a roomful of supporters with a grin and said: "I'm trying to be restrained in my new role. I may be looking for a three-piece suit." After pausing, he laughed and then -- to his backers' delight -- declared, "Fat chance!"
How did Howard Dean, whose presidential campaign got derailed by endless replays of a barbaric yawp, go from public laughingstock to party leader?
Howard Dean went from being the hot new face of 2003 to the laughingstock of 2004. Now he is poised for a Democratic Party takeover in 2005.
Practical Democratic politicians, intent on reversing a decade of decline, feel trapped in a bad dream with Howard Dean as the most prominent prospect to be the party's national chairman.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean said Wednesday that his party needs to be rebuilt, "not from the consultants down, but from the ground up."
Another election so soon?
Andy Card stays on as White House chief of staff, Howard Dean considers a bid for Democratic National Committee chieftain, we hear, and it's "conceivable" John Kerry will run for president again in 2008. The more things change ...
Political punditry is harder than it looks. That's what a lot of Democratic voters must be thinking right about now.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean asserted again Wednesday that "ample evidence" exists that President Bush was playing politics when he approved raising the terror alert level Sunday -- a contention Bush administration and campaign officials deny.
An adviser to Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry says the government's decision to raise the terror alert level in three urban areas indicates the country is not as safe as it could be.
Shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday at the FleetCenter, with hardly a fifth of the delegate seats filled and only C-SPAN's cameras on, the 2004 national Democratic platform was adopted by barely audible acclamation. These delegates are inheritors of an old tradition that has involved their party in often-ruinous platform battles. At long last, say today's Democrats, we are "united."
Former presidential candidate Howard Dean said Tuesday that the Democratic Party is united in its opposition to President Bush and that the convention is Sen. John Kerry's week to shine.
Posted: 12:50 a.m. ET From Bryan Long, CNN.com
This year, for the first time, webloggers were credentialed to cover a national political convention. In addition to the bloggers posting from Boston at the Democratic National Convention, there were dozens of other voices -- on all sides of the political spectrum -- blogging on what they heard and saw in Boston.
Fueled by a $7.5 million haul last night that featured the requisite Bush-bashing and Whoopi-style bawdiness, John Kerry and John "the Kid" Edwards (per Whoopi) travel today to West Virginia and New Mexico, where the desert air should do wonders for their hair.
Do you remember when Saddam Hussein -- who at the time was dividing his time between a hole in the ground and a shed piled with dirty clothes and was obviously not commanding any organized opposition -- was captured last December 14?
Two full days of 9/11 commission hearings have blocked most TV coverage of the '04 campaign, but those hearings did more to influence the Bush/Kerry race than any new attack ad or policy speech ever could. With the pent-up energy of two boys stuck in rainy-day recess, George Bush and John Kerry roar back into campaign mode today, armed with publicity stunts they've kept under wraps all week.
Howard Dean returns to center stage on the Left Coast today. John Kerry goes dark, taking holiday in Idaho.
Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and his son, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo, endorsed Sen. John Kerry for president Saturday.
You'd never guess it from watching TV news or reading the papers, but the biggest concern of voters this year isn't WMDs or the economy or Howard Dean's howl or whether President Bush went to his N...
The Southern Democrat landed yesterday in New York, where he'll spend part of every day this weekend. He arrived there armed with a Super Tuesday game plan, some fair-trade talking points and a joke about Alex Rodriguez, designed to endear him to die-hard Yankees fans.
John Kerry surrounds himself today with union leaders, many of whom differ with him on big issues like NAFTA but hate President Bush more than any one trade agreement.
From CNN's Wolf Blitzer in Washington:
The Democratic race for the White House turned largely into a two-man matchup Wednesday with Howard Dean's withdrawal from the field, leaving John Kerry and John Edwards battling for delegates as more state contests loom.
Howard Dean was trailing a distant third in the Wisconsin presidential primary Tuesday night, but the former Vermont governor vowed to "keep up the fight for a better America."
If it's Tuesday, it must be another big win for John Kerry, who's poised to cruise to victory in Wisconsin tonight. This morning, Kerry draws support from the 19-union, 5 million-member Alliance for Economic Justice, the trade-and-jobs wing of the AFL-CIO.
In his victory speech following the Tennessee and Virginia primaries, Senator John Kerry exhorted his supporters to "go to johnkerry.com and share your ideas."
Howard Dean may end his '04 presidential campaign this week. But Dean's "campaign" will probably continue far beyond Wisconsin, Super Tuesday and the Democratic national convention this summer. Maybe even past Election Day this fall.
Presidential hopeful Howard Dean is looking to reshape the Democratic presidential race in the Wisconsin primary next week.
Yesterday, John Kerry won his 10th primary/caucus, all but one (Iowa) by double digits. Tomorrow, the Massachusetts liberal is poised to sail past the two Southern moderates in Tennessee and Virginia. He probably won't even break a sweat.
CNN journalists and analysts discussed the results of Democratic caucuses in Michigan and Washington state. Here is their analysis of what the wins for Sen. John Kerry in both states will mean for the field of Democratic hopefuls.
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A lot of last year's biggest stock market highfliers have lately been doing excellent Howard Dean imitations. And it's unclear whether they can regroup and take Wisconsin.
Just four weeks ago, John Kerry breathlessly touted a "major endorsement" in Iowa that aides said (hoped?) would change the course of the campaign.
John Kerry's big momentum is carrying him into what's expected to be a strong showing this weekend. But so far it hasn't generated a new wave of support from Capitol Hill, or the backing of two unions that could really help him in the days ahead.
For the first time since Iowa, Howard Dean is not the post-election story. And after the results of yesterday's seven-state contest, he's not even the sidebar.
CNN analysts and contributors considered the impact of Sen. John Kerry's five victories Tuesday, Sen. John Edwards' win in South Carolina, retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark's showing in Oklahoma, and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's future in the race.
Dean and Trippi started a new style of campaigning. Will the movement outlast the candidate?
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Howard Dean lashed out Saturday at Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. John Kerry with some of the harshest rhetoric of the campaign, calling Kerry "another special interest clone."
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There's nothing older than yesterday's news (or more boring than last night's debate), except perhaps last year's fund-raising reports. Those reports, due out this weekend, will provide an already dated glimpse of an '04 Dem primary that, like Howard Dean's war chest, has turned upside down since the December 31 deadline.
Democratic front-runner Sen. John Kerry took issue Thursday night with a top Republican who earlier in the day questioned his credentials to be president.
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Joe Trippi, who until one day ago ran Howard Dean's presidential campaign, said Thursday he still believes in the candidate and is confident he will be selected as the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean attacked front-runner Sen. John Kerry as weak on health care, saying the Democratic Party needs a candidate "who is willing to get stuff done."
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Howard Dean tried to rally his supporters Tuesday evening after a second-place finish in the New Hampshire primary.
Howard Dean is thundering that he's going to abolish Bush's "irresponsible" tax cuts. Dick Gephardt is itching to start a trade war with somebody. Joe Lieberman sounds more like a Republican every ...
Our apologies to the Granite State, its friendly faces and frigid climes. But we're already looking ahead to the relatively balmy breezes of South Carolina.
In their only debate before next week's New Hampshire primary, Democratic presidential candidates hit hard at President Bush on many of the issues he raised in his State of the Union speech, ranging from tax cuts to Iraq to same-sex marriage.
Howard Dean didn't let the sting of dropping from lauded front-runner to third place in the Iowa caucuses keep his spirits down Monday evening.
One nice thing about Howard Dean is that he does what journalists tell him to do. The New Republic wrote that he was too secular, and he immediately found religion.
In an unlikely end to the Iowa Democratic caucuses, Howard Dean conceded defeat early to rivals John Kerry and John Edwards, while Dick Gephardt's poor performance reportedly led him to plan his exit from the presidential race.
Wesley Clark should get plenty of rest this weekend. And maybe take a good, long swim. Because starting Tuesday he'll need plenty of energy to outrun the multi-pronged army of critics pressing down on him as his crowds swell and his poll numbers rise in New Hampshire.
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 Much like the campaign she has run for almost a year, Carol Moseley Braun's decision to quit and back Howard Dean today in Iowa will have little impact on the Democratic nomination battle. Her moves have, however, done wonders for a political career that seemed destined for dishonor when she lost her Senate seat in 1998.
A spokesman for front-running Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean says there's no contradiction between his opposition to the war in Iraq and his call for unilateral U.S. airstrikes on Serb forces in Bosnia in 1995.
Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean trained his rhetorical guns on New Hampshire primary rival Wesley Clark Wednesday, questioning Clark's credentials as a Democrat.
This city just can't catch a break. Howard Dean, it seems, would rather cool his heels in Burlington today than show his face in Washington as local Democrats (a handful of them, at least) cast "votes" in their first-in-the-nation-non-binding-beauty-contest.
The caucuses make and unmake candidates -- and this time is no different. Can Dean beat Gephardt -- and the expectations too?
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Under fire in a campaign debate, Howard Dean conceded grudgingly Sunday night that he never named a black or Latino to his state Cabinet during nearly 12 years as governor of Vermont.
Sen. John Kerry took a shot at rival Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean on Saturday during a stop at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds.
Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa's senior and most popular Democrat, endorsed Howard Dean for president Friday.
The campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt on Thursday accused Howard Dean's camp of illegally sending out-of-state supporters to Iowa to caucus in cities and towns across the state -- an accusation Dean's manager called "ridiculous on its face."
When six opponents gathered at public broadcasting studios outside Des Moines last Sunday for yet another debate, they searched frantically for some way to slow Howard Dean's presidential express.
Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean joined his rivals Wednesday in attacking President Bush over a U.S. Department of Labor guide that tells employers how to avoid paying workers overtime.
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman received a strong endorsement Wednesday from The New Republic magazine, which said the senator from Connecticut offers the "clearest, bravest" vision for the Democratic Party.
His opponents say he is unlikable and unelectable. The Democratic front runner explains why most of what you hear about him is dead wrong
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Saying Howard Dean is more an idealist than an angry candidate, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey gave his endorsement Tuesday to the Democratic presidential candidate at a boisterous rally in New Hampshire.
Political insiders greeted the news that Bill Bradley would endorse Howard Dean today with a collective "whatever." And that may be very good news for Dean.
Howard Dean started off the year not only at the top of the pack of the nine Democratic presidential candidates, but also as the choice of about half of all registered Democrats if the race boils down to a two-way contest after the first flurry of primaries and caucuses, a CNN/Time poll said.
Howard Dean, who stunned the Democratic establishment last month when he won the backing of former Vice President Al Gore, will pick up another key endorsement Tuesday from former Sen. Bill Bradley, sources close to the Dean campaign said Monday.
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Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean accused his rivals in debate of being "co-opted" by the Bush administration amid criticism from several of those fellow candidates.
Steve Murphy, Rep. Richard Gephardt's campaign manager, this week professed to being baffled. How is it possible, he wondered, that Howard Dean's bizarre comments about Osama bin Laden attracted so little news media attention?
Democratic presidential hopeful and front-runner Howard Dean raised more than $15 million in the fourth quarter of 2003, his campaign has announced, breaking his previous quarter's total of $14.8 million.
Back in 1996, around the time Bill Clinton was cruising toward reelection against Bob Dole, I had a conversation with Labor Secretary Robert Reich about the pathetic state of America's unions. Reic...
Ever since Howard Dean began running for President, his lineage has created some mystery. In August bloggers at sites like rightnation.us and freerepublic.com misinterpreted a Jimmy Breslin column ...
In early September the Republican leadership in Congress met with President Bush in the West Wing's stately Cabinet Room. They delivered bad news: Voters who once supported him overwhelmingly were ...
It was back around the time George W. Bush kept an aircraft carrier loitering in the Pacific so that he could make a top-gun landing and effectively declare the Iraq war over. Nothing--or so it see...
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