The Death of Imagination

More to the point, who would have voted for Dean who didn't already vote for Kerry? We had record turnout in this election, along with first-time voters in record numbers. Everyone who strongly disapproved of the war already voted for Kerry. The "moral values" crowd would have found Dean even less appealing. He would've been harder to portray as a "tax-and-spend liberal", true, but are there really that many people among whom fiscal responsibility is a paramount issue who didn't already go for Kerry? At least four million of them? I don't see it.