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He doesn't live where there is a town supervisor. He would have to run for Mayor of Indianapolis, and I think that would be too much of a hurdle for one's first election.

I think school board....>state legislature......>Congress.

I bet you he could beat Julia Carson! Heheheh!

Ah so he lives in a bigger municipality...then your ladder of progression is quite right.

John Armor in his Congressman Billy Bob column a couple of weeks ago, wrote that Dean was a certain winner of the Democratic nomination.

Gore's endorsement is proof positive that BillBob is once again correct in his assessment. Gore's endorsement recognizes the certainty of the Dean nomination. Gore is trying to help Dean take control of the Democratic party. His statement that they need to take the party back shows Gore's anger at the Clinton's.

It looks more and more like a fight for control of the Democratic party. Dean will attempt to take it away from the Clintons. The Clinton's will use CFR as a means ot move all the party money to independent organizations they control. The Leftist side of the party will try to counter the Clinton's with their own independent organizations to raise money. The Democratic party may find itself split into two segments with major donors splitting their donations between the two factions or not giving at all. Democrats may have trouble raising money after 2004. Dean is a sure looser and after his defeat is when the fight between the Deaniacs and the Clintonestas will begin.

I have on several occasions compared what the Democrats are doing in 2004 to what the Republicans did in 1964. But there seems to me to be a major difference. When Goldwater was defeated he just went away. He accepted his defeat and held no grudges. That does not describe Howard Dean. Barry did not try to retain control. He let Richard Nixon win the support of the right to gain the 1968 nomination. Dean is not likely to let Hillary pull a Nixon. I don't see Howard Dean stepping aside for a Clinton comeback as Goldwater did for a Nixon comeback.

It is a long way in the future but I can see the Democrats being so split in 2008, that they allow another Republican victory.

It appears to me that the Democratic party factions are not goint to try to healwounds and mend fences. It is very much going to be about taking control and getting even.

2004 is going to be a very revealing year.

The only issue that has ever united Democrats is the economy. If the economy is doing well in 04,05, 06, 07, and 08, we may get see Democrats attacking Democrats for at least a few years.