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ESSAY: Andrew Sullivan on Howard Dean's enduring value...
...HOWARD DEAN: He drops manager Trippi and minds Michigan...
...question keeps bugging me. Why have I been rooting for Howard Dean to win the Democratic nomination? I'm not a Democrat or even, in contemporary parlance, a liberal. In pure policy terms, I'm probably closer to John Kerry and John Edwards. What's more, Dean's insistence that war against Saddam was wrong strikes me as morally and strategically misguided. His loose accusations of lying in the White House, his airing of notions that George W. Bush had a warning about 9/11, his bad temper and his occasional nastiness are all reasons to back his opponents...
...Bears, and when he gets cranky he sometimes demands of an aide, "I thought y'all were getting me a candy bar." An empty Hostess cupcake package can often be found next to John Kerry's bus seat; he munches on the snacks for a late-night sugar rush. Howard Dean is almost Clintonian in his appetites. In Iowa he wolfed down pork sandwiches and strawberry milk shakes, and sometimes made detours to the dessert table; once, after an aide told him there was pie in the pressroom, he braved the reporters' gauntlet for a slice...
This Saturday's Democratic contest in Michigan will be more than just another dogfight--and a place where Howard Dean plans to make a stand. The face-off will be the biggest test yet of what could be the wave of the future for U.S. elections: Internet voting. Michiganites will be able to cast their ballots the traditional way at 600 polling places, but they can also, for the first time, choose to vote on the Internet. Any registered voter can fill out an online application, which is checked against registration rolls. A ballot is then mailed, and the voter...