NY Times: Similarities Aside, Bernie Sanders Isn’t Rerunning Howard Dean’s 2004 Race

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/us/politics/similarities-aside-bernie-sanders-isnt-rerunning-howard-deans-2004-race.html

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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — It was a summer Friday night in Iowa, and a high school auditorium here was overflowing, as more than 1,000 people, holding signs and collecting names, spilled out into the lobby and onto the sidewalk. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont strolled onstage — tieless, his white hair askew, his shoulders stooped — and stopped at the sight in front of him.

“What this campaign is doing is sending a loud and clear message to the billionaire class: And that is that their greed is destroying the United States of America,” Mr. Sanders, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, shouted above the roar of the crowd. “This country belongs to all of us — and not just a handful of billionaires.”

To many in this state with the first nominating contest of 2016, it was a familiar scene: a candidate from Vermont challenging the Democratic Party status quo with a lusty if slightly cantankerous presentation — and drawing huge crowds. In 2004, it was Howard Dean, the doctor and former governor of Vermont, who commanded his party’s attention with booming rallies and displays of populist passion; this summer, it is Mr. Sanders, a candidate with a similar pedigree who seems to be playing off a similar script.
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[WhysMan]

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