Interesting poll

[DarthKosh]

Bit of a threadjack, Beet.

I think another reason Dean is doing well is because of he is quite conservative on several issues, especially gun control.  Why he's allowing himself to be painted as an extreme liberal is condusing to me.  I don't hink he'll win the election, but it'd be quite a bit closer if he was a passionate moderate rather than an angry liberal.

If he is a passionate moderate as you say he would not have the isane left on his side.

[DarthKosh]

Sorry, being called a Middle Eastern dictator and hearing Carter being compared to Hitler threw me off temporarily. Unless I misconstrued the post...

The point is that Dean distinguished himself as the antiwar candidate, thats why he's not in Kerry's position now. Certainly the technology-savvy helped, but he's going to allow himself to be painted as a strong liberal until he's confident in winning the primaries, because for now that's still his base. Certainly for those of us looking at the general election, things are very different.

He will lose his base if he tries to move to the center.  Nader would pick those voters up.

[DarthKosh]

Dean is opposed to gun control.
In Montana that matters a lot.

The whole picture not one issue.  Dean is still going to get his ass handed to him in Montana.

[DarthKosh]

I don't hink he'll win the election, but it'd be quite a bit closer if he was a passionate moderate rather than an angry liberal.

If he is a passionate moderate as you say he would not have the isane left on his side.

The insane left is what it is: delusional.  He's a moderate and will have to lose those freakos that give the Dem's a bad name in order to put up a good show in the election.

He shows that he is a "moderate"  and he loses at least 30% of his base in the general.