Back to the Front
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Marrying Kerry: Forget the hype about blogs and backpacks. It's all
about getting warm bodies to the polls. How John Kerry got his groove
back, mucked up the Bush battle plan—and proved Democrats are thinking
hard about who's the most 'electable' challenger to Bush
By Howard Fineman
Feb. 2 issue - It was pitch dark and zero degrees outside, and the
driver had dimmed the fluorescent lights in Sen. John Kerry's "Real
Deal Express" for the long ride across New Hampshire from Claremont
back to Manchester. The campaign day had been a good one, as, indeed,
they all had been since Iowa, where months of dogged work—patiently
answering hour upon hour of questions from voters in town halls,
learning to speak in the crisp cadences of the campaign trail, not in
Senatese—had paid off in a come-from-behind victory. But the gloom in
the bus reflected Kerry's mood, which was subdued, almost grim, as he
jabbed at the soggy remnants of a salad and contemplated what could be
a grueling, lengthy contest for the Democratic nomination. A year ago
the pundits had christened him the front runner; instead, Howard Dean
had blogged his way into the role. Then, in Iowa, Dean had collapsed,
and added to his woes with a primal scream of a concession speech.
Now, post Iowa, Kerry had roared to the lead in the New Hampshire
tracking polls, but the results were by no means set. Dr. Dean,
performing emergency surgery on his campaign, calmed his delivery and
advertised his unassuming wife in an effort to show that he was a
regular fellow; Sen. John Edwards, a trial lawyer, addressed the jury
of voters in his earnest, po' boy style. Anything could happen, Kerry
said; he had to work—harder. "I don't believe in numbers," he said. In
Vietnam, many years ago, he had learned to live with the fact that an
invisible sharpshooter on a riverbank could kill him in an instant. "I
learned to tough it out," he said.
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