Reply #16: Not when he first started campaigning.

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He was promoting his centrism and supporting Bush publicly as commander-in-chief well into 2002. He didn't ramp up until late 2002/early 2003.

I recall well how he was campaigning in SC back in March 2002 when his plan was to capture the middle. The growing protests to Iraq war had Dean adjusting his stand on other issues like free trade to further his appeal to the antiwar left.

He grew into a voice for the left. He certainly didn't start that way based on his own longheld positions like Kucinich.