MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Howard Dean and John Kerry traded new fierce charges of poor judgment in foreign policy and negative campaigning in New Hampshire Monday.
Dean, seeking to close his narrowing but still significant gap behind the Massachusetts senator in opinion polls, renewed his charges that Kerry had repeatedly been wrong -- and on the opposite side of the fence to him -- on major foreign policy issues.
Kerry campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter countered, "Throughout the day today, Howard Dean has attacked John Kerry and his campaign on a variety of issues ... New Hampshire voters will see these flailing attacks as what they are, a last desperate attack."
If Dean can close the gap with Kerry in Tuesday's primary, he will again be a potent factor in the Democratic presidential race. But a serious defeat, coming so soon after his distant third finish in the Iowa caucuses, would lose a lot of the momentum out of his campaign.
