UK's Times Online posts an in-depth article about Dean which has been included in the Guardian's 2002 "Best of journalism around the web"

By Anonymous -
This article is no puff peice. It takes a good hard look at Dean's positions, and also attempts to put his candidacy into historical/political context. Read the article for yourself, but here's a sample:

"Now that Al Gore has finally decided to let sleeping chads lie and announced his surprise decision not to seek a presidential rematch against George Bush in 2004, the field for Democratic contenders has been left wide open. Who will get the party nomination? Gore’s 2000 running mate and political heavyweight Senator Joseph Lieberman? The veteran Massachusetts senator, multi-millionaire and decorated Vietnam War veteran John Kerry? Or an obscure governor from a tiny state with little campaign money and a virtual political unknown? You may scoff, but anonymous Democrat governors have tended to do rather well at emerging from nowhere to win the party nomination before unseating an incumbent president. Look no further than Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Bill Clinton in 1992"

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