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Show CF FRFSTSAFPRER SPR BF GSS SSBC" FREPHESS SPREE a a BO: 8 I The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Saturday, October Il, 2003 Ag Dean’s campaign showing parallel to Clinton’s 92 run Altke: Both are Yale grads, were governors ofsmall states, are D.C. outsiders and have used health care as a cornerstone By Err Ketty son ofa Wall Street banker and an artist. As the story goes, Clinton was insnired by the idea of holding public office as early as high school, when he met President Kennedy on a trip to the nation’s capital. He was elected as the nation’s youngest governor in 1978, at age 32. Dean pursued a medical education and career, continuing to see patients WASHINGTON — It’s the tale of an while serving as a state lawmaker and ambitious small-state governor who lieutenant governor. He became goverlaunched a long-shot campaign for the nor at age 43 when his predecessor died Democratic presidential nomination in office. and became the front-runner, attracting Dean and Clinton each served 11 huge crowds and loads of campaign years as governor and developed a repcash. utation for governing from the center. This year, it’s the story of former When they decided to run for presiVermont Gov. Howard Dean. But in dent, Clinton and Dean entered their 1992, it was about thenDemocratic primary races as Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. ANALYSIS Washington outsiders and Gannett News Service The parallelsbetween the virtual unknowns. Oppo- two Yale University graduates are many, and Dean encourages the comparisons. After all, nents derided Clinton’s home state of Arkansas as a poverty-stricken backwater and Dean’s Clinton won the nomination and beat President George H.W. Bush in 1992. If Dean wins the Democratic nomination, he will face the son of the man Clinton beat. But there are important differences in style and substance, between the blunt-spoken Yankee and the Southern charmer. Dean and Clinton began life under wildly different circumstances before ending up on similar paths. Clinton was born to his widowed mother in the now famous tiny town of Hope, Ark. Dean was born in New York City, the Vermont as the land of loony liberals. Both men were dismissed as Jacking the big-league experience lead the +i Bsc Dean has sought Clinton’s advice has said he will ask the former president to campaign for him if he wins the nomination. Clinton so far has stayed out of the race, declining to endorse anyof the nine candidates. ten talks about how both he and Clinton are fiscal conservatives who believe in balancing the federal budget. snl Clinton balanced the badest A Dean-Clinton comparison see some paraliels in the 2004 presidential campaign of Political ‘ eee eeeeee Democrat Dean and the 1982 campaign of former President Clinton, tion’s history,” Dean said in a speech Hagens @ took at -~ ‘ earlier this year. Dean has taken the antiestablishment message further than Clinton ever did, attacking the current president and congressional Democrats for supporting the war on Iraq and big Dean has moved to the left, said Eric Davis, a political science professor at Middlebury College in Vermont. Democratic presidential “Clinton tried to portray himself as candidate Howard Dean the centrist Democrat who could appeal to moderates of both parties,” Davis © Former governor of Vermont; said. “Dean's strategy so far seems to be state 49th in population. to mobilize the liberal Democratic base by playing to voters’ dislike ofBush’s @Never served in Congress, running as Washington outsider. policies.” The good news for Dean is that the © Brokeall-time Democratic fund-raising straight-laced Vermonter does not have record for a single quarter the personal baggage of the scandal- with $14.7 million in the third quarter of this year. plagued Clinton. The bad news, analysts Plays guitar. say, is that he doesn’t have Clinton’sfamous charm either. © Favorite sport: skiing. Former Clinton pollster Douglas @ Biunt-spoken Yankee. Schoen said both in 1992 and now,there is an incumbent president who is very ® Doctor married to a doctor. vulnerable on the economyafter having appeared to be very strong on foreign ® Would face President George W. Bush policy,” Schoen said. “I think the major in 2004 if he wins the Democratic primary. similarity between Dean and Clinton is the nature of the opposition.” Soume: GNS research Clinton e Former of Arkansas; state in population. e Never served in Congress, ran as Washington outsider. © Set previous Democratic fundraising record, $10.3 million during a single quarter in 1995. e Plays saxophone. @ Favorite sport: golf. @ Southern charmer. © Lawyer married to a lawyer (turned U.S. senator). ¢ Ran against former President George H.W. Bush in 1992. Geraci NewsServicer Clark trying to upstage Dean for donations via Hollywood,Internet By THomas EpsaLi The Washington Post Retired Gen. Wesley Clark has conducted successful forays into two important sources of financial support for Howard Dean — Hollywood and the Internet — and is trying hard to enlist Dean’s donors in his newly launched presidential campaign. Early in his campaign, Clark has demonstrated considerable fund-raising prowess. From Sept. 17, the day of his announcement, to Sept. 30, Clark raised $3.5 million, substantially more than Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., raised during the three months of the third quarter. But Dean is expected to report he raised almost $15 million during the quarter that ended Sept. 30, the most of any Democratic candidate. The former Vermont governor has been more successful than his rivals in using the Internet, raising about half of his third-quarter total that way. But Clark may prove equally adept. Before he even announced his candidacy, the Draft Wesley Clark operation on the Web had gathered $1.9 million in pledges. Although campaign officials do not know how many of those pledges became actual donations, two-thirds of the money that Clark raised in the past quarter came via the Internet. The Clark campaign has signed up about 100,000 supporters, half of whom enlisted through the Draft Clark Web site, according to John Hlinko, who ran the site and now runs Internet operations for the campaign. Hlinko said the campaign is trying to overtake Dean, who as of Thursday had enlisted 461,206 people via the Internet. Most major fund-raisers and donors in California are re maining uncommitted, waiting to see how well the candidates do in the early jockeying, debates, polls and fund raising. But Clark's initial success has eaten away at some ofDean’s potential support, especially .in the Los Angeles area. According to many political activists there, Clark has supplanted Dean as the star attraction and the main focus of political attention, and Clark has won the likely backing of at least one prominent fund-raiser, television director Norman Lear, who had been leaning toward Dean. On a recent swing through Los Angeles, Clark was the beneficiary of a $2,000-a-head fundraiser hosted by Lear and his wife, Lyn, Larry and Lauri Dav- id, and Mary Steenburgen. Lear, who gave Dean $2,000 in April, said, “Both Dean and the general are the ones closest to what needs ¥ terest there is in Clark.” With the pressures of the new McCain-Feingold campaign finance law to raise money not from large donors but from thousands of smaller ones, the to be said.” After spending time with both candidates, Lear said, “Ym inclined to the general,” crucial test is whether candi- adding, however, “I want them both out there.” willing to tap into larger constit- We put 100 movies at your fingertips. Now available at your local Jeremy Bernard, one of the founders of ANGLE (Access Now for Gay and Lesbian Equality), a political action committee based in Los Angeles, said, “I’m surprised about the amountof in- dates can convert well-known donors into active fund-raisers, uencies of givers. |
