WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A wildly emotional Howard Dean yelled he would fight on for the Democratic presidential nomination after his stunning defeat in the Iowa caucuses Monday.
Dean appeared in denial and even manic as he addressed supporters in a post caucuses party at the Val Air Ballroom in western Des Moines. He had placed a humiliating and distant third with only 18 percent in the caucuses behind Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.
"We have not begun to fight," Dean cried in his televised remarks. "... We will not quit now or ever."
The former Vermont governor who had led the Democratic field for so long still has a $40 million war chest and an organization of true believers in every state. But his once 40 point lead in New Hampshire has been cut to almost nothing by former Gen. Wesley Clark and he now faces Kerry's surging challenge as well as a surprisingly strong Edwards.
