Andrew Golis

Alright, it looks like everyone and their mom has checked into the DNC race over the weekend and has written about it. For normal news articles about the weekend events in the race, read here (yahoo news), here (stl post dispatch) or here (charlotte observer). To get a new completely unscientific poll, go here (has Dean “leading”). Finally, if you want to read a really crappy piece of journalism from the NYT, read here. The crappiest paragraphs:

And the decision by Dr. Dean to join the race has certainly made it more ideological than usual. Should he win, his outspokenness suggests he will break with the more traditional role of party leaders.

To some extent, that accounts for the uneasiness among many Democrats about Dr. Dean, who is so closely identified with the party’s antiwar left. He has sought to play down his ideological edges.

You’d think that the NYT would be above stupid media caricatures. Dean is more conservative than a lot of the party. He’s fiscally conservative and socially progressive. That he’s “identified with the party’s antiwar left” is purely because people like Adam Nagourny keep saying so. He was against the war, but if you can understand things in multiple dimensions, you’ll realize that he shouldn’t be identified with that wing of the party at all…

ALSO: Some gossip from the oh-so-reliable New York Post on some people trying to convince former Senator Bob Kerrey to try for the job…

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