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| Last Edited | None Entered Feb 29, 2004 10:51am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The feuding and backbiting that plagued the Howard Dean campaign had turned utterly poisonous. Behind the facade of a successful political operation, senior officials plotted against each other, complained about the candidate and developed one searing doubt.
Dean, they concluded, did not really want to be president.
In different conversations and in different ways, according to several people who worked with him, Dean said at the peak of his popularity late last year that he never expected to rise so high, that he didn't like the intense scrutiny, that he had just wanted to make a difference. "I don't care about being president," he said. Months earlier, as his candidacy was taking off, he told a colleague: "The problem is, I'm now afraid I might win." |
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