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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (24605)	1/16/2004 12:30:40 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 793670

This ones for you, Ann. The Braun Factor Howard Kurtz - Washington Post What kind of impact will Carol Moseley Braun's endorsement have? Skeptics might argue that it's a mere blip for Howard Dean. After all, her presidential campaign went nowhere. Her campaign manager quit because Braun wouldn't follow her earlier advice to bow out. Braun's single term in the Senate was marked by ethical controversies and she failed to win reelection in Illinois. So there's not likely to be a stampede of Braun partisans. But here's why it appears to give Dean a boost at a time when the media are trumpeting each margin-of-error slip in the polls. As the only other African-American in the race, Braun helps inoculate Dean against Al Sharpton's charges that he doesn't much care about minorities. And Dean just got a free commercial on CNN, MSNBC and Fox as Braun and Iowa's Tom Harkin sang his praises. Harkin used the podium to defend Dean against a very tough Dick Gephardt ad -- perhaps the harshest of the campaign so far -- that has just been released. I've just finished watching it, and it tries to recycle Dean's comments from the 1990s and suggest he still holds those views. Here's the transcript: "[Narrator:] How much do you really know about Howard Dean? Did you know Howard Dean called Medicare 'one of the worst federal programs ever?' Did you know he supported the Republican plan to cut Medicare by $270 billion? And did you know Howard Dean supported cutting Social Security retirement benefits to balance the budget? "[Gephardt:] I will be a president who will fight to protect Medicare and Social Security." "The same old negative attack politics," Dean spokesman Jay Carson told me. Which is why Dean may consider it good timing to be standing alongside Braun and Harkin.

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