Reply #40: That's easy

[dolstein]

Dean squandered millions of dollars on shitty ads and a new fangled internet-based grass roots organization that, in the end, failed to deliver. If Dean had spend his money wisely and built a more traditional organization, who knows what might have happened?

Besides, the question we were dealing with isn't why Dean lost, but why Kerry surged. And I stand by my claim that the Kerry surged was triggered not by populist rhetoric, but by a massive infusion of $$$$. The ads which boosted him, by the way, featured a Vietnam war veteran, not a bunch of populst bromides. I don't think Kerry started ripping off Edwards' stump speech (which WAS unabashedly populist and far better than anything Kerry has delivered before or since) until after Iowa.