Dean's Still In It Because WE'RE Still In It

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Dean strives for a second act
Boston.com

BURLINGTON, Vt. — In the office that served as the frenzied nucleus of his presidential campaign, silence reigns as Howard Dean works with a kind of kinetic intensity, as if a Sousa march were keeping his rhythm. There are e-mails to be written, phone calls to be made — a movement to be resurrected. The man whose Internet-wired campaign rewrote political playbooks and whose bluntness of message captured hearts of angry Democrats is once again straining uphill, seeking to craft something out of the phenomenon that was Howard Dean during his months-long ride as the leading Democratic candidate. . . .

So two months after he abandoned his pursuit of the nation's highest office, the former Vermont governor is seeking to mold his most fervent believers into new form: a web-linked group that will, with him as front man, support progressively inclined candidates across the country.

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