Reply #15: I think he knows what he is doing

[LuminousX]

I sense a pattern. Dean makes statements that aren't lies, they fall in a gray area. When he called Graham a second tier candidate in the beginning (hmm, is Dean prescient, Graham was the first to drop) I felt Dean was too uncouth to make it to the end. But it got Dean free press and did little harm to his campaign (because everyone was thinking it.)

Then came the 'talking about race' issue. Again, I felt Dean had backed himself into a corner. He took a small beating in the debates, got a ton of press out of it, and still surged in the polls. In voters minds it was cemented that Dean talks about race issues openly. Sure, sure, others may do it too, but damn, the press was talking about Dean doing it.