DougR, you're being a blowhard.

Kerry "leans" much further to the left than Dean. When he actually turns up to vote (which is not that often), his voting record is to the left of Kennedy's. When he introduces legislation...oh, wait a minute, he's never introduced a single piece of legislation in all his time in the Senate. What the hell does he do, anyway? He is basically a status quo candidate, the worst the Democratic Party has to offer, with no particular vision. Dean has governed vermont as a centrist and a fiscal conservative. The only really liberal part of his record was his support of civil rights for gay people.

By the way, the finish in NH represented 13 delegates for Kerry, 9 for Dean, a difference of 4 delegates. When you need over 2,000 delegates to win, this is an inconsequential number, one fifth of a percent of the delegates needed. Due to the early commitments of "superdelegates," Dean is STILL in the lead in the delegate race. Don't count him out yet.