[DustyMoment]

I always figured that Dean wouldn't make it all the way to the convention, but I never thought he'd lose it in Iowa.

Traditionally, American voters don't care much for the kind of temper tantrum Dean gave after the results were in. Remember Muskie and his crying about media attacks on his wife? Dean will soon join THAT highly exclusive club of "never-was'". He has only himself to blame for his (lack of) political future.

I also am not surprised that Gephardt is dropping out. I never saw him as a very strong candidate and, apparently, neither did the Iowans.

With Gephardt and Mosely-Braun out of the race and Dean pretty much toast, it looks as though the race will come down to a contest between John "JFK" Kerry (I served in Viet Nam, ya know), John "the Breck Girl" Edwards and Joe "I should be the REAL VP" Lieberman. I think the rest of the field are non-contenders; they're just slow to get the hint.

[Akira]

I spent a few minutes scrolling through the forum on Dean's official website. He still has some staunch supporters (as expected), but folks are bailing on him left and right. It's ugly (for him).

National Review had him on their cover a couple of weeks ago, in full anger mode, with a headline "Please elect this man". I guess that's dead.