I don't really have the time to do this, so this may be a substandard diary, and I'm sorry for that. If someone else wants to take these jokers point-by-point, please do.
Over at WaPo, Kornblut and Bacon have written an article that makes my blood boil, and I have to defend my main man, Howard Dean. I know, I know... I should let it go. It was years ago... it's over... they wouldn't listen about their misperceptions then and they won't now. But I have to try again to set the record straight.
This article is about whether or not Obama can avoid Dean's pitflalls. It makes this erroneous point more than once, but here is the first instance:
the challenge for the senator from Illinois has become clear: He must turn the intense devotion of his backers into a force that can win primaries, expanding his base of support beyond the narrow band of Democratic elites who backed Dean.
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