What now for Dean?

[NHPolitico]

It's possibly too early to tell, but let's face it, five days ago anything other than a Dean victory in IA would have been a massive shock. So what happened? Has the bubble burst? And how will Dean's recent kamikaze oratory (let's face it, you can't really call that a speech) affect his chances in NH?

Perhaps Dean will recover, perhaps he won't. Either way, these primaries are set to be a lot closer, and ultimately more exciting, than many would have thought.

New Hampshire voters are very educated. They all know about his verbal cliff dive (even if the only coverage was on the news-- which it's not, but instead a pop culture moment worthy of inclusion on a show on VH1). Dean will get about 20% of the vote. Anyone else who gets higher than that will beat him. So, he could be in second or third or whatever depending on how many are over 20% and by how much.

[NHPolitico]

Im pretty sure after that speech last night Deans gonna be working for the WWE

Does Dean have 24 inch pythons and a vicious leg drop move?

[NHPolitico]

Dean's speech was scary last night.  Tucker Carlson said that he "frightened little children."

My 3 YO daughter has a US state puzzle. She saw Dean and said why is that man talking about my puzzle?

[NHPolitico]

NEW YORK!!! NORTH DAKOTA!!! MICHIGAN!!! PENNSYLVANIA!!! OHIO!!! AND TEXAS!!! AND ARKANSAS!!! AND NORTH CAROLINA!!! THEN TAKE BACK THE WHITE HOUSE Yeeheehaaaaa!!!!

I have never before heard Lex Luthor-style crazy evil laughter in politics. This was a first for me.

I think a lot of Deaniacs are starting to realize now that they;ve been following a Golden Calf, a False Messiah; what Simon and Garfunkel might call a "neon god". It must be like awakening from a dark dream last night- a lot of people must've turned on their screeens and said "we were following that raving lunatic???"

I still haven't seen the speech!

Ignore Miamiu1027. You do want to see it. It's hilarious. It's why we all love reality TV.

[NHPolitico]

Hemay have been drunk, now that I think of it.

I don't think he slurred his speech did he?

[NHPolitico]

I am suprised so many are predicting doom for Dean so quickly. Other candidates have lost the Iowa caucus before and gone on to victory, and I don't think that a huge amount of New Hampshirites are going to suddenly change their mind based on Iowa's vote. New Hampshire is where Dean had a larger lead initally and was a state that was always seen as more "Dean territory". Moreover, the resurgence of Kerry and Edwards may draw votes from Clark and split the Anti-Dean opposition. I think calling Dean dead would be premature.

Shaheen was hurt by the fune-rally just like Mondale was.  We are a big talk- radio and TV state. If undecideds and undeclareds don't view Dean's yelp the way we do, then it won't hurt him. They will know about it, though.  It got heavy coverage on every news talk show yesterday-- even on national sports radio like ESPN.  I know of some voters who have switched to Kerry as a result of Dean's yelp.

[NHPolitico]

The speech is on Around the Horn too.  Uh-oh.

It's wild that his speech probably gets more coverage than last night's SOTU address.