Reply #17: Which all happened during the aforementioned pissing contest. [View All]

Dick Gephardt was running attacks ads directly at Howard Dean CONSTANTLY from December until the primary. Unfortunately, Dean kept firing back. This translated into the polls getting closer and closer as the primary date neared.

The "organizational" aspect was about getting people from their homes to the polls and Kerry knew that part of the game much better. The Dean people had a bunch of untrained "kids" and some Dean supporters received 6, 7, 8 calls the day before and on the day of the caucus remidning them to come out. Dean supporters were getting annoyed, because they were being bombarded by the candidates they were going to support. Many of those people who were considered "strong support" didn't show up to the polls at all... some said afterwards, it was because they were feeling harassed.