Dean answered questions from Independents

QUESTIONNAIRE -- CHOOSING AN INDEPENDENT PRESIDENT 2004

Answers from Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

1. The trend in the direction of political independence has continued unabated during the last ten years. A recent CNN/USA Today poll shows the electorate in a three-way split, with independents comprising a plurality at 35%. To what do you attribute this growing dis-alignment from the major parties?

DEAN - I believe that both parties are guilty of not giving people a reason to vote. It's certainly a problem within the Democratic Party. We've become so afraid to stand up for what we believe that the public has almost no idea what our principles are. The Republican Party has moved further and further to the right, and the Democratic Party has followed them, to the point where Democrats look like Republicans, and Republicans talk like moderates but govern like right-wing extremists. I think that voters want candidates to be clear about who they are and what they believe, and that's exactly what my campaign is all about. Voters may not always agree with me on every position, but they will always know where I stand.

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