Jim Kingdon

> Dean's prodigious fund raising will prove to the pundits that he is a
> serious candidate. More important, it suggests to Americans that
> Democrats are still serious about issues of war and peace.

Yes, sort of.

But issues of war and peace don't actually win you a lot of votes.
Voters pay much more attention to domestic issues. At least, that is
the conventional wisdom - I don't know if the Vietnam era was an
exception, or whether post-9/11 will prove to be