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The Mysterious Stranger
By DAVID BROOKS

Published: December 9, 2003

My moment of illumination about Howard Dean came one day in Iowa when I saw him lean into a crowd and begin a sentence with, "Us rural people. . . ."

Dean grew up on Park Avenue and in East Hampton. If he's a rural person, I'm the Queen of Sheba. Yet he said it with conviction. He said it uninhibited by any fear that someone might laugh at or contradict him.
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Mal eine neue Umfrage
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POLL ANALYSES
December 11, 2003


Key Bush Ratings Remain Fairly Strong
Most applaud his surprise Thanksgiving visit to Iraq


by Lydia Saad
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE

PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, the first conducted since President Bush visited Iraq over Thanksgiving and signed the new Medicare bill into law, finds little change in Bush's ratings from mid-November. Fifty-five percent of Americans now approve of the job he is doing. This is slightly higher than his previous rating of 50%, but is consistent with the 50% to 56% range within which his job approval score has fluctuated since September.
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