{"id":1201,"date":"2004-02-05T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1201.html"},"modified":"2004-02-05T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T21:05:23","slug":"dean-taking-a-pretty-big-risk-making-wisconsin-his-make-or-break-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dean-taking-a-pretty-big-risk-making-wisconsin-his-make-or-break-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean taking a pretty big risk making Wisconsin his make-or-break state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The message didn&#8217;t mince words: &#8221; The entire race has come down to this: we must win Wisconsin&#8230;. A win there will carry us to the big states of March 2 &#8212; and narrow the field to two candidates. Anything less will put us out of this race.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the email Dean for America sent to its supporters this morning, appealing for funds to put Dean&#8217;s ads on the air in Wisconsin. It&#8217;s a pretty bold move. It&#8217;s also terribly risky.<\/p>\n<p>Dean has already kind of moved the goal posts a bit. He said after losing New Hampshire that he was focusing his attention on Michigan. Now that Michigan seems to be slipping away, he&#8217;s drawing the line at Wisconsin, making it the new &#8220;must-win&#8221; state.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign supporters are reacting with some enthusiasm. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A15010-2004Feb5.html\">Washington Post reported<\/a> a surge in donations to keep Dean competetive in Wisconsin, with about $125,000 in contributions since the email was sent.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, unless a whole lot of those donors live in Wisconsin, this may not work out. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/captimes\/news\/stories\/67441.php\">statewide poll<\/a>, released yesterday, showed Kerry with a pretty big lead, enjoying the support of 45% of the state&#8217;s Dems &#8212; about three times the support Dean garnered. And now that Dean has raised expectations in such a high-profile way, he&#8217;ll have trouble moving the goal posts again if Wisconsin doesn&#8217;t go his way.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The message didn&#8217;t mince words: &#8221; The entire race has come down to this: we must win Wisconsin&#8230;. A win there will carry us to the big states of March 2 &#8212; and narrow the field to two candidates. Anything less will put us out of this race.&#8221; That&#8217;s the email Dean for America sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}