Posted by Jed Lewison on Sun Nov 25, 2007 at 12:21 AM Pacific

David Yepsen, 2004: "Howard Dean should win the Iowa caucuses tonight"

01/19/2004 - Des Moines Register

Organization will be key to victory

By DAVID YEPSEN

If organization is as important as caucus lore tells us it is, Howard Dean should win the Iowa caucuses tonight. Driven by youthful energy and anti-war activism not seen since the Vietnam War, Dean has assembled what his organizers claim is the best get-out-the-vote operation ever built in the state.

They are probably correct. As the campaign draws to a close today, the important story isn't the candidates and their hoopla. It's their organizations and their boring grunt work on the streets and telephones of Iowa.

So no -- I'm not worried about Yepsen's prediction that Edwards is collapsing and Richardson is surging.

(Here's some more of Yepsen-Dean 04.)

David Yepsen, 2004: "Howard Dean should win the Iowa caucuses tonight"
01/19/2004 - Des Moines Register

Organization will be key to victory

By DAVID YEPSEN

If organization is as important as caucus lore tells us it is, Howard Dean should win the Iowa caucuses tonight. Driven by youthful energy and anti-war activism not seen since the Vietnam War, Dean has assembled what his organizers claim is the best get-out-the-vote operation ever built in the state.

They are probably correct. As the campaign draws to a close today, the important story isn't the candidates and their hoopla. It's their organizations and their boring grunt work on the streets and telephones of Iowa.

So no -- I'm not worried about Yepsen's prediction that Edwards is collapsing and Richardson is surging.

(Here's some more of Yepsen-Dean 04.)

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