CNN Presents (TV Series)
True Believers: Life Inside the Dean Campaign (2004)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: Self
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E.J. Dionne Jr. : Dean understood earlier than any of the other Democrats that there was this wave of anger inside the party. And it wasn't just a wave of anger at President Bush.
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E.J. Dionne Jr. : But there was also a sense among Democrats that after the 2002 election, the party just wasn't fighting back hard enough.
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E.J. Dionne Jr. : People were impressed. And they said, "Is this a little hubris? Is he jumping ahead of himself?"
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E.J. Dionne Jr. : Lots of people have spun all sorts of theories about the Internet, none of which usually panned out. And here suddenly, you had a candidate who would use this new tool. You know, there's no other way to put it. He used it brilliantly.
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E.J. Dionne Jr. : The fact that he had been able to almost fly under the radar meant that an awful lot of people felt, both among his opponents and in the press, that they'd better catch up and start giving some critical scrutiny to this guy who, at that moment - people were saying, "My God. He's going to sweep to the nomination."
