Predictions - Hugh Hewitt, in

Predictions - Hugh Hewitt, in the midst of this excellent interview with John Hawkins, gives his views on the Democrat nomination:

I think it's going to be Howard Dean and I believe it's because of his unique appeal to the unhinged element within the Democratic Party which is large in the primaries. Dean's appeal is his pugnaciousness and the primary voters see reflected in him, their own sense of having been blocked out of every branch of government and their rage at George W. Bush's success. They're doing self-destructive things and the ultimate self-destructive thing is the nomination of Howard Dean and so I expect it.

Here's the big question: I've been told (and vaguely remember hearing) that Hewitt worked really hard to get conservative listeners to vote for The Duck in the MoveOn.org poll. I'd be interesting (and probably impossible) to find out how much impact that poll had on Dean's surge - and, should he carry the nomination, how much impact that had on the '04 race.

Ideas?

Posted by Mitch at July 25, 2003 02:58 PM