Howard Dean will be the Democratic "David" that slays the Repuke "Goliath"

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or at least leaves the Repuke "Goliath" stunned enought to take the White House, Senate, and close the gap in the House.

From The Note http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html
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Practicing and covering nomination politics are imperfect sciences, but you really can learn something about the mood of a party and — we are serious — about the mood of the nation, when an insurgent candidate does well.

We'd like to lock Congressman Gephardt and Senators Kerry, Edwards, Lieberman, and Graham in a windowless, un-air-conditioned classroom in Concord this afternoon and give them this pop quiz (not open book, and candidates only — no help from Elmo, Jer-dan, Baldick, the Campaign Director, or Jarding):

--List three lines from Howard Dean's stump speech that always get a big crowd reaction and explain why. (15 minutes)

--Write an essay explaining what Dean's surge says about what the party wants in its nominee, and what larger sentiments does his message reveal about the state of the American psyche right now? (45 minutes)
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Dean has got the message, good old fashioned American ingenuity, work ethic, charisma, and a campaign strategy that will leave the Establishment Dems, like Kerry, Edwards, and Lieberman, spinning in circles, while he takes the nomination. The he'll face The Goliath, the Bush-Rove machine, and do to them what a young Israelite shepherd called David did to the Philistine giant.