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To: LindyBill who wrote (30343)	2/18/2004 4:25:28 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793757

THE NOTE - Will Dean support another candidate? Dean has said privately and publicly that he admires Senator Edwards greatly. He's said that he believes Senator Edwards would be a stronger general election candidate against President Bush than Senator Kerry. Two other top advisers contacted ABC News independently last night to tell us that they're pressing Dean to endorse Edwards, and soon. One of them joked to us that, "I'll continue trying to organize my mini-coup of Dean staffers and supporters to urge Dean to endorse Edwards." Dean has certainly been more muted in his praise for Kerry. The campaign acknowledges some brief discussions with the Kerry campaign about certain logistical issues but top aides insist that the conversations have not focused on when/where/whether Dean would endorse Kerry. A top Kerry aide said today that the conversations were "casual, not formal." Where will Dean's supporters go? Some on Dean's staff think that his supporters will go to the nominee as part of a "Anybody But Bush" movement. Some, however, may feel disappointed and disillusioned. As one Dean staffer said: "Look they might vote for the nominee, but you're not going to have Meetups and house parties and people giving money to the bat. The Kerry campaign and what we have are two completely different campaigns. They have different feels." As former Dean campaign chair Steve Grossman said on Sunday night: "You can't wrap a nice little bow around it … .If he [Dean] does drop out then he can't just send out an email and expect his supporters to switch." Trippi has a few ideas. He's started a weblog — changeforamerica.com. And he's toying with, perhaps, putting together a fundraising group that uses Dean's list of 300,000 donors and 600,000+ supporters as a launch pad. About 100,000 of them are said to be committed to the Dean cause. About 25,000 are considered the core "Deaniacs." Or an advocacy group that presses the Dean message through the general election. But no real decisions have been made, in part because Dean himself hasn't weighed in on what he wants to do.