It is very rare in that corrupt 2-party joke of a $ySStem in the USA that anyone gets a true mandate. It's phony baloney to say they do. Propaganda. Self-serving tripe.

If Dean is a genuinely independent thinker with new and progressive ideas, I would be amazed if the Democrats picked him to run next time. Astounded. Gobsmacked. Flabbergasted. Such people don't run...and if they do, they die young.

Those 2 parties both serve the Big Money $ySStem, the military-industrial complex, and whoever pays for their phony campaigns. They are Heckyl and Jeckyl, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Cisco and Pancho, Mutt and Jeff. They are a travesty.