Out of Left Field (An article on Howard Dean from "LA Weekly"}

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Earlier today I posted a quote from an article in The National Review, which included this:

"Commenting on Wesley Clark's possible candidacy in an interview with L.A. Weekly, Dean explained:

"It's going to be very hard to start late," he says, "and think you're going to do well in Iowa and New Hampshire. It's going to be incredibly hard. I mean, we've already got 39,000 people working for us all around the country ... I really do believe--and I think about this--I want to get this nomination, and if I don't ... these kids are not transferrable. I can't just go out and say, 'Okay, so I didn't win the nomination, so go ahead and vote for the Democrats.' They're not going to suddenly just go away. That's not gonna happen."


One DUer who replied to my post stated that a search of the LA Weekly website didn't turn up the quote and that TNR needed a fact checker. This concerned me so I used Google (LA+Weekly+Howard Dean) and the first article to come up was this article by Jamie Wolf, which turned out to contain the exact quote cited by TNR in their article. It's a very long article so you will have to scroll down a long ways to find it but it is there.


Here's the URL for Jamie Wolf's article in LA Weekly:

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/41/features-wolf.php

Jonathan Chait's short article in The National Review is here:

http://www.tnr.com/primary/index.mhtml?pid=650

TNR is doing a primary series involving numerous short articles on each candidate, each mini-article looking at one issue or event in relation to that candidate.