Saturday, November 21, 2009

Politics

Turning Point

After nearly everyone had written him off, John Kerry turned a limping campaign into a force that couldn't be beat. Here's How

By Roger Simon
Posted 7/11/04
Page 34 of 34

"Over my life I've had a lot of different battles," John Kerry said. "Sometimes you have to go out and make your own breaks and make the fight. Iowa is the fight I chose."

"If this thing had started in California," Howard Dean said, "I'd be the nominee."

But it started in Iowa. A friendly little state with an oddball voting system where little was as it seemed.

HOWARD WHO?

Before the Iowa caucuses, the Howard Dean campaign predicted he would win over 70 percent of Iowa's counties.

[Iowa Map Key]

ACTUAL VOTING RESULTS

Actual Dean win

Dean tie

DEAN PREDICTIONS

Confident of winning

Reasonably confident of winning

Likely to win

[Iowa Map labels]

FREEMONT COUNTY

LYON COUNTY

O'BRIEN COUNTY

JEFFERSON COUNTY

Sources: Dean for America, Iowa Democratic Party

Stephen Rountree--USN&WR

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