It irks me to say this, but I am concerned that the following WILL HAPPEN.
President Bush will lose to HOWARD THE DUCK(Dean).
Reasons:
(1) Howard Dean being called Dr. Dean (to pull in the Oprah voters)
(2) Amount of voters exposed only to major media and gossip before voting VERY LARGE.
Amount of voters with real info on candidates, and making an informed rational decision very small.
Look at the favorable/unfavorable ratings for Dean. No one likes a whiny person and that is what he is. Doubt he can get anywhere by going after Bush as POTUS has brilliantly taken away all of the DIM issues. So they have to go to the extreme left to counter-attack and that is not going to work.
Plus, just play a few of the tapes where Dean calls Bush a moderate from past years and even Dims are going to think twice about who to vote for...