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To: William McKinley

I don't think Dean said that, at least, I didn't read he said that.

Seems that he said a few years ago that 'the Iowa caucuses is dominated by special interests,' saying that they "don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people, they represent the extremes?"

That's not saying they are unimportant - actually, I think there is something to what he said. As for the folks in Iowa taking it personally, I am not a good judge of that. I know if something similar was said about politics in ny state where I lived for a long time, I wouldn't take it as an affront.

And is anybody of a significant stature in the coming out swinging and explictly saying that the Iowa caucuses are NOT dominated by special interests, and DO represent the centrist tendencies of the American people?

150 posted on 01/09/2004 3:11:33 PM PST by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)

Your quote is accurate, and I stand by my interpretation of it. If it is by and of the extremists, then it is not important or relevant for most of America.

152 posted on 01/09/2004 3:21:43 PM PST by William McKinley

I know if something similar was said about politics in ny state where I lived for a long time, I wouldn't take it as an affront.

You're also not a liberal.

171 posted on 01/09/2004 4:50:22 PM PST by stands2reason ("Dean is God's reward to Mr. Bush for doing the right thing in the war on terror." Dick Morris)

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