Trippi Trippi Shake

The early returns are in on the shake-up in the Dean campaign. According to my unofficial tally, with 62 percent of the hacks bloviating, "Doesn't Dean know what a loser Al Gore is?" has a commanding lead. There's a strong second place showing for "Dean picks a telecom lobbyist; the so-called populist is a fraud." Surprisingly weak results for "Further proof Dean is angry and arrogant hothead" and "Trippi made Dean, therefore Dean's candidacy is doomed," although those slams may get a late surge from their traditional base, the print pundits.

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