But even if true, I'd suggest that Dean never did have widespread support, but Hillary has had a 25-30% base that has been slavish to her for years. They won't get spooked if she loses the Iowa caucus. And Dean had the $$, but never had the organization she does.
It is true. In hindsight, what you say about him is right, but it didn't have to do with organization, as Dean had the moonbat/moveon.org on his side. Aside from Al Sharpton and the blacks, who else had any organization that early in 2004? Dean was the first antiwar candidate.
Anyway, that year Dean didn't have to go up against Hillary (as far as we know, LOL! There was talk about Dean as the anti-Clinton). Dean was done in by his own hubris and believing what the polls were saying. Noisy moonbats does not an electorate make.