Screw John Kerry. He was an abysmal candidate. Anti-American, pro communist. Toss him on the Ash heap....
Boy, you said it. I knew all along Dean had peaked too early, but I thought the DemonRats would give Gephardt the nod.
It boiled down to a hell of a ROPE-A-DOPE by Kerry. He had everone convinced he had given up on Iowa and was focusing on New Hampshire. But he did a stealth campaign in Iowa, no personally showing up but having strong organization.
By winning Iowa, and taking that momentum into his own backyard in New Hampshire, he won the nomination by winning two small states.
However, he was a candidate that did not have a clue how to run a national campaign. He had to rely on the DemonRat machine to turn out the labor an minority vote, unfortunately for him that only amounted to 48%-49% of the popular vote and did not produce an electoral majority.
The bad news is the DemonRats can turn out 45-50 million votes at the drop of a hat, even if their candidate is a wet fish.