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To: Rollcast... who wrote (25211)	1/19/2004 10:35:59 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793689

Here come the post-caucus mortems....the quotes from the Dean blogs should be over the top.. Dean's Poisoned Mushroom Blogging the Iowa caucuses. By William Saletan Updated Monday, Jan. 19, 2004, at 6:53 PM PT 6:50 p.m. PT: Wow. I was just upstairs reading my son Babar the King. In the story, Babar the elephant is anointed king after the old king eats a poisoned mushroom and dies. The picture of the old king dying is awful. He's shriveled up, and his face is ashen. I come downstairs, and Howard Dean looks like he just ate a poisoned mushroom. Dean tells Larry King, "We got our ticket punched to New Hampshire, and that's what matters." I recall hearing the ticket metaphor in 1988, when the guy claiming there were three tickets out of Iowa was Michael Dukakis. That's an auspicious analogy in the sense that Dukakis went on the nomination. But it's an inauspicious analogy in the sense that Dukakis lost the election badly—to a guy named George Bush—and Democrats don't want to repeat that mistake.