Reply #14: I think that this is WAY too simplistic a viewpoint on this issue.

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This article assumes that all Americans are exactly alike and that all will respond to Dean's "temper" equally - and in the same manner as the author. Voters in the South and the Great Plains, among others, may not respond well to it at all if Dean gets too demostrative.

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Harry Truman didn't spend every waking moment in front of the media, so I find the comparison pretty much irrelevant.