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Article: Dean's behavior on caucus night dizzying; Americans should be glad that the Iowa process helped display another side of the candidate
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 26, 2004
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So do you think Howard Dean knew he had come in third when he went
out and did his crazy caucus night cheer? Plain and simple, Dean's
behavior in front of supporters - with the nation looking on - was
bizarre.
Face plastered with a manic grin, Dean three times screamed out a
litany of states he would win, and capped off his sound bite with a
barbaric yawp that would have given Walt Whitman the willies.
A few weeks before the caucus, it seemed as if Dean began reading
his own press clippings and started behaving as if he, as the front-
runner, no longer needed to be cooperative or accessible. Before long
the Dean camp was treating local reporters shabbily, and then came a
round of Dean ...