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Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin to Endorse Dean
Newsday ^ | 1/9/04

Posted on 01/09/2004 10:38:21 AM PST by areafiftyone

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin will endorse Howard Dean for the Democratic presidential nomination, party sources said Friday, giving a key boost to an embattled front-runner 10 days before the state's kick-off caucuses.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2004; dean; endorsement; howarddean; ia; tomharkin
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To: McGruff
This should be in the Breaking News sidebar.

I thought so too and hinted to the Admin Moderator the same ...

Dykes for Dean


21 posted on 01/09/2004 10:57:56 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Howie Dean in the South !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/IowaRatsLastMealNewDeal.JPG)
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To: areafiftyone
The more that endorse Dean, the better - how better to alienate all but the most die-hard commie wackos from the Dim party?
22 posted on 01/09/2004 10:57:57 AM PST by trebb
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To: Cautor
Because Harkin only matters in Iowa. If Harkin was important in SC, or NH, I doubt he would have endorsed Dean.
23 posted on 01/09/2004 10:59:02 AM PST by Solson (Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Von Goethe)
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To: philosofy123
The majority of Dems are behind angry Dean. Pragmatists Demoncrats know that he has no snow ball chance in hell. That is the biggest confusion for the poor bastards.

That's what I gathered, having spent New Year's week in Iowa visiting family: Iowa Pragmatism extends into Democratic politics. It feels like 1972 and McGovern all over again.

24 posted on 01/09/2004 10:59:35 AM PST by irgbar-man (Why don't aardvarks get sick?)
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To: irgbar-man
How many states did McGovern carry? I rest my case.
25 posted on 01/09/2004 11:02:13 AM PST by philosofy123
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To: irgbar-man
Remember when Hillary went to the Iowa dem party and stole the show?....maybe that's why Harkin went for dean....the battlf now is against the Clintons for control of the DNC
26 posted on 01/09/2004 11:04:01 AM PST by ken5050
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To: MeeknMing
Thanks for the ping!
27 posted on 01/09/2004 11:05:08 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: zencat
I am keeping my fingers crossed for Dean to win. Then Bush will splatter him!
28 posted on 01/09/2004 11:06:34 AM PST by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: areafiftyone
All Nikita needs now is an endorsement from Mike Dukakis...
29 posted on 01/09/2004 11:08:39 AM PST by COBOL2Java (If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, thank a soldier.)
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To: Chi-townChief
Harkin? I thought he died a few years ago.

Even if he's dead, Harkin can still endorse Dean. Why should dead democraps still be able to vote, yet not be able to endorse?
30 posted on 01/09/2004 11:10:49 AM PST by birdsman
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To: birdsman
Iowa is strange....any state that elects Harkin AND Grassley, and keeps re-electing them..is politically psychotic...that's the oddest pair of senators I can recall..
31 posted on 01/09/2004 11:14:59 AM PST by ken5050
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To: MeeknMing
Oh goodie. Maybe he'll pick Dung-Harkin as his running mate. Two hateful men.
32 posted on 01/09/2004 11:18:21 AM PST by onyx (Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
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To: MeeknMing
How about "Des Moines Dykes For Dean" ??:)
33 posted on 01/09/2004 11:20:25 AM PST by international american (support our troops.........revoke Hillary's visa!!)
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To: Cautor
Because if Dean gets the nomination, he will NOT win in 04. That way the coast is clear for Hillary in 08.
34 posted on 01/09/2004 11:21:38 AM PST by GrandmaPatriot
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To: ken5050
that's the oddest pair of senators I can recall..

Oregon with Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden, New Mexico with long-time pair Bingaman and Domenici, South Carolina until recently . . .

35 posted on 01/09/2004 11:27:48 AM PST by JohnnyZ (I pity the fool who thinks Bush's proposal is the same as amnesty!)
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To: ken5050; JohnnyZ
that's the oddest pair of senators I can recall..

How about Rod Grams and Paul Wellstone, back when they were both senators in Minnesota?

36 posted on 01/09/2004 11:38:47 AM PST by BlackRazor
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To: onyx
Oh goodie. Maybe he'll pick Dung-Harkin as his running mate. Two hateful men.

Yep !

Or, since he likes Gays so much and they love him, how about Bawney ?? ...

haha ! That oughta get the Southern vote !!


37 posted on 01/09/2004 11:39:39 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Howie Dean in the South !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/IowaRatsLastMealNewDeal.JPG)
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To: international american
haha !

38 posted on 01/09/2004 11:40:51 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (Howie Dean in the South !!: http://Richard.Meek.home.comcast.net/IowaRatsLastMealNewDeal.JPG)
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To: zencat
Once Dean wins Iowa and New Hampshire, his support in every state will go up at least 10 points-- meaning that being neck and neck with Dean isn't good enough in those February and March states. Clark has to be up 10 points in these states just to be tied with Dean after he gets these big wins in January.
39 posted on 01/09/2004 11:43:48 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative ("Howard Dean is incontrovertible proof that God is on Bush's side in the 2004 election"- Dick Morris)
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To: thepatriot1
Wasn't John F'n Kerry supposed to get some big endorsement today. I had assumed that it would be Harkin.

Has Kerry gotten any big endorsements??

40 posted on 01/09/2004 11:44:48 AM PST by Mo1 (Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
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