Playbill

December, 2003

This past summer Governor Howard Dean, an outspoken critic of the invasion of Iraq who hails from Vermont, stormed the mainstream in his bid to beat the self-declared front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sound familiar? In 1972 Senator George McGovern, a prominent antiwar voice from small, agrarian South Dakota, also took on the Democratic heavyweights for the right to run for president against an entrenched, well-funded Republican incumbent. Maybe that's why Dean is being c...