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Published on: 2/6/2004
Last Visited: 2/6/2004
Philly lawyer Mark Aronchick is co-chairman of Dean's Pennsylvania campaign and one of 70 members of the Dean's List, the candidate's core fund-raisers.
Aronchick was in on the 2 a.m. inner-circle conversations the night of the New Hampshire disaster.
He said the campaign made a strategic decision to skip Tuesday's action to focus on delegate-rich Michigan and Washington, whose primaries are tomorrow, and Wisconsin on Feb. 17.
"I argued that we at least compete [last Tuesday] in Arizona and New Mexico, but the decision was not to compete," Aronchick said."The delegate-rich states are more expensive and it will take everything the campaign has."
Aronchick thinks Dean still has a chance, "but the stars all have to line up right."
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"It's going to be quite challenging," Aronchick said, "but it's certainly possible.I've never seen an election as volatile as this."
The media had fun with Dean's shouting to supporters in Iowa, suggesting that his screams alienated voters in New Hampshire.Nonsense, said Aronchick.
"I spoke with 200 to 250 voters up there in the days leading to the primary," Aronchick said.