Aaron Benson: “Dean's astonishing fall in New Hampshire came not because of his third-place Iowa finish, but rather, because his speech startled supporters awake from their six-month-long intellectual stupor. Dean, who had staked his campaign on cynically exploiting party divisions, was finally unmasked as a symbol of mobocracy.” [via Adam Morris]
And people who think that a candidate's policy matters in elections seem unwilling to grasp this, but as with everything, looks matter.
