{"id":2155,"date":"2004-01-20T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T07:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/20\/if-not-dean-then-who\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:16:58","slug":"if-not-dean-then-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/20\/if-not-dean-then-who\/","title":{"rendered":"If not Dean, then who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12072,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/1\\\/20\\\/145641\\\/607&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060923044322\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com:80\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/1\\\/20\\\/145641\\\/607&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:00:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:00:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11847,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.deanforamerica.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240506070256\\\/https:\\\/\\\/deanforamerica.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 19:59:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 17:05:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 20:24:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 05:02:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 20:28:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 20:28:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10668,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.johnkerry.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190928002622\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.johnkerry.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:25:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 07:25:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12073,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.johnedwards2004.com\\\/home.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.johnedwards2004.com\\\/home.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12074,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.clark04.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12075,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/1\\\/21\\\/16577\\\/4571&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050511155609\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com:80\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/1\\\/21\\\/16577\\\/4571&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:00:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 21:00:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of good food for thought in the comment thread for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/1\/20\/145641\/607\" title=\"Post-Iowa edition\">Daily Kos post-Iowa look at the Dem contenders<\/a>. Some good discussion on whether Dean has suffered as bad of a blow as it may seem, and if so, then who might be the best person to pick up the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Most people that aren&#8217;t solidly entrenched in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanforamerica.com\/\" title=\"Howard Dean for America\">Dean<\/a>&#8216;s camp seem to be leaning towards either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkerry.com\/\" title=\"John Kerry for President\">Kerry<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedwards2004.com\/home.asp\" title=\"John Edwards\">Edwards<\/a> &#8212; not terribly surprising, as they got the top two spots in the Iowa caucuses &#8212; with a few leaning towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clark04.com\/\" title=\"General Wesley Clark for President\">Clark<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For myself &#8212; well, at least for the moment, Dean is still my favorite of the bunch. Kerry has never particularly impressed me (he comes off as too much of a &#8220;traditional politician&#8221;, Clark I think would make a great VP or cabinet member (his military background strikes me as better fitting to a supporting role), and Edwards I just don&#8217;t know much about.<\/p>\n<p>Any supporters of Kerry, Edwards, or Clark want to present a case why I should look more seriously at their campaign? I&#8217;m curious.<\/p>\n<p>[Update:]{.underline}<\/p>\n<p>Essentially the same question is being asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/1\/21\/16577\/4571\" title=\"Make Yer Pitch\">on Daily Kos<\/a> &#8212; and apparently generating a good amount of answers. Worth looking into.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Bostich&#8221; by Yello from the album <em>Essential<\/em> (1980, 4:36).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of good food for thought in the comment thread for this Daily Kos post-Iowa look at the Dem contenders. Some good discussion on whether Dean has suffered as bad of a blow as it may seem, and if so, than who might be the best person to pick up the nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}