Dean, Howard

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Dean’s 2004 campaign manager, Joe Trippi, advised Democratic candidate John Edwards in the 2008 presidential race.

Two members of Dean’s Internet team, Jascha Franklin-Hodge and Joe Rospars, went on to found Blue State Digital. The company worked for <a class="internal" rel="internal" href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/John_F.Kerry">Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.)</a>, <a class="internal" rel="internal" href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Edward_M.Kennedy">Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)</a>, and was the driving force behind <a class="internal" rel="internal" href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama’s</a> 2008 web push

.Talbot, David, “<a title="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2009/01/08/the_geeks_behind_obamas_web_strategy/" class="external" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2009/01/08/the_geeks_behind_obamas_web_strategy/" target="_blank">The Geeks Behind Obama’s Web Strategy</a>,” The Boston Globe, January 8, 2009  (15)

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Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">politician</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician" title="Physician">physician</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a>. He served six terms as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Vermont" title="List of Governors of Vermont">79th</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Vermont" title="Governor of Vermont">Governor of Vermont</a> and ran unsuccessfully for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party%28United_States%29_presidential_primaries,_2004" title="Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2004">2004 Democratic presidential nomination</a>. He was chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee">Democratic National Committee</a> from 2005 to 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-0">[1]</a> Although his U.S. Presidential campaign was unsuccessful, Dean is regarded as a pioneer in raising the profile of internet based fundraising and grassroots organizing.

Before entering politics, Dean earned his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Medicine" title="Doctor of Medicine">medical degree</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_College_of_Medicine" title="Albert Einstein College of Medicine">Albert Einstein College of Medicine</a> in 1978. Dean was elected to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_House_of_Representatives" title="Vermont House of Representatives">Vermont House of Representatives</a> as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> in 1982 and was elected <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_governor" title="Lieutenant governor" class="mw-redirect">lieutenant governor</a> in 1986. Both were part-time positions that enabled him to continue practicing medicine. In 1991, Dean became governor of Vermont when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A.Snelling" title="Richard A. Snelling">Richard A. Snelling</a> died in office. Dean was subsequently elected to five two-year terms, serving from 1991 to 2003, making him the second longest-serving governor in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Vermont" title="History of Vermont">Vermont history</a>, after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chittenden" title="Thomas Chittenden">Thomas Chittenden</a> (1778–1789 and 1790–1797). Dean served as chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Governors_Association" title="National Governors Association">National Governors Association</a> from 1994 to 1995; during his term, Vermont paid off much of its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_debt" title="Public debt" class="mw-redirect">public debt</a> and had a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_budget" title="Balanced budget">balanced budget</a> 11 times, lowering <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax" title="Income tax">income taxes</a> twice. Dean also oversaw the expansion of the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dynasaur" title="Dr. Dynasaur">Dr. Dynasaur</a>" program, which ensures <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care">universal health care</a> for children and pregnant women in the state. He is a noted stauch supporter of universal health care for all.

An early <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front-runner" title="Front-runner">front-runner</a> for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, Dean denounced the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003 invasion of Iraq</a> and called on Democrats to oppose the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_administration" title="George W. Bush administration" class="mw-redirect">Bush administration</a>. Dean showed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundraising" title="Fundraising">fundraising</a> ability, and was a pioneer of political fundraising via the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>; however, he lost the nomination to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senator</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>. Dean formed the organization <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_for_America" title="Democracy for America">Democracy for America</a> and later was elected chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee">Democratic National Committee</a> in February 2005. As chairman of the party, Dean created and employed the 50 State Strategy that attempted to make Democrats competitive in normally conservative states often dismissed in the past as "solid red." The success of the strategy became apparent after the 2006 midterm elections, where Democrats took back the House and picked up seats in the Senate from normally Republican states such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana" title="Montana">Montana</a>. In the 2008 election, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> used The 50 state strategy as the backbone of his candidacy.

Dean was named chairman emeritus of the DNC upon his retirement.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-1">[2]</a> He was mentioned as a possible candidate for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="Secretary of Health and Human Services" class="mw-redirect">Secretary of Health and Human Services</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-HHS-2">[3]</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeon_General_of_the_United_States" title="Surgeon General of the United States">Surgeon General</a> under the Obama administration.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-3">[4]</a> He currently holds no elected office or official position in the Democratic party.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Early_life_and_education">1 Early life and education</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#East_Hampton_and_New_York_City_childhood">1.1 East Hampton and New York City childhood</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#The_Yale_years">1.2 The Yale years</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#The_move_to_Vermont_as_a_doctor">1.3 The move to Vermont as a doctor</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Religion">1.4 Religion</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Vermont_political_career">2 Vermont political career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#2004_presidential_candidacy">3 2004 presidential candidacy</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Message_and_themes">3.1 Message and themes</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Fundraising">3.2 Fundraising</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Endorsements">3.3 Endorsements</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Response">3.3.1 Response</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Disappointing_Iowa_results_and_the_.22Dean_Scream.22_Media_Gaffe">3.4 Disappointing Iowa results and the "Dean Scream" Media Gaffe</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Impact">3.5 Impact</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Campaign_timeline">3.6 Campaign timeline</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Post-campaign_and_Democracy_for_America">3.7 Post-campaign and Democracy for America</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#50-state_strategy">4.1 50-state strategy</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Fundraising_strategies">4.2 Fundraising strategies</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Private_career">5 Private career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Electoral_history">6 Electoral history</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#References">7 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Further_reading">8 Further reading</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#External_links">9 External links</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-24"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Official">9.1 Official</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Media">9.2 Media</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#Other">9.3 Other</a></li>

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<h3>Fundraising</h3>

In the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Primary" title="Invisible Primary" class="mw-redirect">Invisible Primary</a>" of raising campaign dollars, Howard Dean led the Democratic pack in the early stages of the 2004 campaign. Among the candidates, he ranked first in total raised ($25.4 million as of September 30, 2003) and first in cash-on-hand ($12.4 million). However, even this performance paled next to that of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a>, who by that date had raised $84.6 million for the Republican primary campaign, in which he had no strong challenger. Prior to the 2004 primary season, the Democratic record for most money raised in one quarter by a primary candidate was held by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> in 1995, raising $10.3 million during a campaign in which he had no primary opponent. In the third quarter of 2003, the Dean campaign raised $14.8 million, shattering Clinton's record. All told, Dean's campaign raised around $50 million.

While presidential campaigns have traditionally obtained finance by tapping wealthy, established political donors, Dean's funds came largely in small donations over the Internet; the average overall donation size was just under $80. This method of fundraising offered several important advantages over traditional fundraising, in addition to the inherent media interest in what was then a novelty. First, raising money on the Internet was relatively inexpensive, compared to conventional methods such as events, telemarketing, and direct mail campaigns. Secondly, as donors on average contributed far less than the legal limit ($2,000 per individual), the campaign could continue to resolicit them throughout the election season.

Dean's director of grassroots fundraising, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry_Biddle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Larry Biddle (page does not exist)">Larry Biddle</a>, came up with the idea of the popular fundraising "bat", an image of a cartoon baseball player and bat which appeared on the site every time the campaign launched a fundraising challenge. The bat encouraged Web site visitors to contribute money immediately through their credit cards. This would lead to the bat filling up like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermometer" title="Thermometer">thermometer</a> with the red color indicating the total funds. The site often took suggestions from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netroots" title="Netroots">netroots</a> on their blog. One of these suggestions led to one of the campaign's biggest accomplishments– an image of Dean eating a turkey sandwich encouraged supporters to donate $250,000 in three days to match a big-donor dinner by Vice President Dick Cheney. The online contributions from that day matched what Cheney made from his fundraiser.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-20">[21]</a>

In November 2003, after a much-publicized online vote among his followers, Dean became the first Democrat to forgo federal matching funds (and the spending limits that go with them) since the system was established in 1974. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> later followed his lead.) In addition to state-by-state spending limits for the primaries, the system limits a candidate to spending only $44.6 million until the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Convention" title="Democratic National Convention">Democratic National Convention</a> in July, which sum would almost certainly run out soon after the early primary season. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> declined federal matching funds in 2000 and did so again for the 2004 campaign.)

In a sign that the Dean campaign was starting to think beyond the primaries, they began in late 2003 to speak of a "$100 revolution" in which two million Americans would give $100 in order to compete with Bush.

Political commentators have claimed that the fundraising of president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, with its emphasis on small donors and the internet, has refined and built upon on the model that Dean's campaign pioneered.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-21">[22]</a>

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<h3>Disappointing Iowa results and the "Dean Scream" Media Gaffe</h3>

On January 19, 2004, Dean's campaign suffered a staggering blow when a last-minute surge by rivals <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards" title="John Edwards">John Edwards</a> led to a disappointing third-place finish for Dean in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Iowa_Democratic_caucuses" title="2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses" class="mw-redirect">2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses</a>, representing the first votes cast in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election">primary</a> season. Dean's public address that night was widely rebroadcast and portrayed as a media gaffe that ended his campaign.

Dean, who had been suffering with a severe bout of the flu for several days, attended a post-caucus rally for his volunteers at the Val-Air Ballroom in West Des Moines, Iowa and delivered his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concession_%28politics%29" title="Concession (politics)">concession</a> speech, aimed at cheering up those in attendance. Dean was shouting over the cheers of his enthusiastic audience, but the crowd noise was being filtered out by his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone#Unidirectional" title="Microphone">unidirectional microphone</a>, leaving only his full-throated exhortations audible to the television viewers. To those at home, he seemed to raise his voice out of sheer emotion. Additionally, Dean began his speech with a flushed-red face, clenching his teeth as he rolled up his sleeves.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-CBS040126-30">[31]</a>

According to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorial" title="Editorial">Editorial</a> written by Verne Gay, some members of the television audience criticized the speech as loud, peculiar, and unpresidential.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-31">[32]</a> In particular, this quote from the speech was aired repeatedly in the days following the caucus:

Not only are we going to New Hampshire, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harkin" title="Tom Harkin">Tom Harkin</a>, we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York ... And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! Yeah!!!

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Senator Harkin was on stage with Dean, holding his suit jacket. This final "Yeah!" with its unusual tone that Dean later said was due to the cracking of his hoarse voice,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-bbcscream-32">[33]</a> has become known in American political jargon as the "Dean Scream" or the "I Have A Scream" speech.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-bbcscream-32">[33]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-usatodayscream-33">[34]</a>

Dean conceded that the speech did not project the best image, jokingly referring to it as a "crazy, red-faced rant" on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Show_with_David_Letterman" title="Late Show with David Letterman">Late Show with David Letterman</a>. In an interview later that week with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Sawyer" title="Diane Sawyer">Diane Sawyer</a>, he said he was "a little sheepish ... but I'm not apologetic."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-34">[35]</a> Sawyer and many others in the national broadcast news media later expressed some regret about overplaying the story.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-CBS040126-30">[31]</a> In fact, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> issued a public apology and admitted in a statement that they indeed may have "overplayed" the incident. The incessant replaying of the "Dean Scream" by the press became a debate on the topic of whether Dean was the victim of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias" title="Media bias">media bias</a>. The scream scene was shown an estimated 633 times by cable and broadcast news networks in just four days following the incident, a number that does not include talk shows and local news broadcasts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-35">[36]</a>

However, those who were in the actual audience that day insist that they were not aware of the infamous "scream" until they returned to their hotel rooms and saw it on TV.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-CBS040126-30">[31]</a> Dean said after the general election in 2004 that his microphone only picked up his voice and did not also capture the loud cheering he received from the audience as a result of the speech. On January 27 Dean again suffered a defeat, finishing second to Kerry in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_primary" title="New Hampshire primary">New Hampshire primary</a>. As late as one week before the first votes were cast in Iowa's caucuses, Dean had enjoyed a 30% lead in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls" title="Opinion polls" class="mw-redirect">opinion polls</a>; accordingly, this loss represented another major setback to his campaign.

Iowa and New Hampshire were only the first in a string of losses for the Dean campaign, culminating in a third place showing in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a> primary on February 17. Two days before the Wisconsin primary, campaign advisor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Grossman_%28political_operative%29" title="Steven Grossman (political operative)" class="mw-redirect">Steve Grossman</a> "announced" through an article written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> Dean campaign correspondent Jodi Wilgoren that he would offer his services to any of the other major candidates "should Dean not win in Wisconsin." This "scoop" further undermined Dean's campaign. Grossman later issued a public apology. The next day, Dean announced that his candidacy had "come to an end", though he continued to urge people to vote for him, so that Dean delegates would be selected for the convention and could influence the party platform. He later won the Vermont primary on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Tuesday" title="Super Tuesday">Super Tuesday</a>, March 2. This latter victory, a surprise even to Dean, was due in part to the lack of a serious anti-Kerry candidate in Vermont (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edwards" title="John Edwards">John Edwards</a> had declined to put his name on the state's ballot, expecting Dean to win in a landslide), and in part to a television ad produced, funded, and aired in Vermont by grassroots Dean supporters.

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Observer" title="The New York Observer">The New York Observer</a> attributed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s success in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008" title="United States presidential election, 2008">2008 U.S. presidential election</a> to his perfection of the Internet organizing model that Dean pioneered.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-36">[37]</a>

On October 11, 2007 it was reported that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio" title="Leonardo DiCaprio">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney" title="George Clooney">George Clooney</a> were in early talks about making a "political thriller" based on Howard Dean's 2004 campaign, tentatively titled Farragut North.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Dean#cite_note-37">[38]</a> The movie is based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farragut_North%28play%29" title="Farragut North (play)">a play of the same name</a>, which is named after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farragut_North%28Washington_Metro%29" title="Farragut North (Washington Metro)" class="mw-redirect">Washington Metro station</a> which is located in the center of the lobbyist district. The play was written by Beau Willimon, a staffer on the Dean campaign. The main character is based on a former press secretary for the Dean campaign.

In November 2008, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary film</a> about Dean and his campaign, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_and_Me" title="Dean and Me">Dean and Me</a>, was released and shown at several film festivals around the country.