I think the cattle calls are becoming irrelevant. What's more interesting now is how the race plays out...
My predictions for the primaries...
Pre-primaries, Edwards goes hard negative on Clark in a huge air war campaign in SC. Clark immediately responds. For humor value, each calls the other politically inexperienced. The battle dominates the echo chamber and the Internet for a week or two, pre-Iowa.
Dean wins DC beauty contest by a landslide. Sharpton throws a fit. DNC and press poo-poo the relevancy, other candidates pretend it didn't happen. Dean's popularity ticks up significantly, especially in the African-American community.
Dean wins Iowa by a solid margin. Gephardt drops out, backs Kerry.
Dean wins NH by a landslide. Kerry barely gets double digits. Kerry stays in anyway, but will not be a significant player again.
Dean pulls a strong third, possibly second, in SC. Both Clark and Edwards stay in, no matter who loses, both claiming to be the anti-Dean.
Dean trounces Lieberman in AZ. No one else is relevant. Lieberman drops out, acknowledges Dean is going to be the candidate and encourages others to drop as well. None do so.
As inevitability and despair set in, other campaigns collapse, despite expensive ads and negative attacks. Dean starts pulling veto-proof majorities in most states.
Bush starts advertising heavily in important states, puffing himself and going generically negative without naming names (questioning Democrat's patriotism, bringing up gay marriage and abortion). GOP 527 ads go brutally, dishonestly negative on Dean personally.
Dean ignores other Dems, starts responding to the 527 and Bush ads instead. Wins more votes.
Once the primaries are settled, Dean keeps stirring the pot, ignoring Bush's increasingly negative ads (except for correcting lies) and running a quirky series of man-on-the-street ads promoting health care, balanced budgets, and other basic non-war issues. Responses to Bush are paid for with occasional Dean Bats. MoveOn and other 527 groups run vicious anti-Bush ads attacking the war and other Bush abuses.
The Democrat convention is a cheering throng. Clinton's "get in line" admonition pays off, and there is almost no public criticism of Dean.
The GOP convention is a disaster. NYPD chooses to let the crowd past rather than use tear gas and rubber bullets on the middle-class victims of 9/11. Crowd invades the convention center and disrupts speeches. Three million protesters practically shut down the GOP.
It's all downhill from there. :}