No way. Dean simply did not have Obama's charm. Martok may have a point about Edwards though -- he might have edged passed Bush in Ohio in 2004 and that would have been the difference.
In retrospect, the fact that a hyper-lib patricianesque twit like Kerry came as close to a win as he did should have been a huge wake-up call for the GOP. One which we ignored in the afterglow of the first majority of the popular vote we'd enjoyed since 1988.
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