[Professor S]

Dean will lose the election by a landslide for one basic reason:

When given the choice between Bush or Dean, many democrats that supported Kerry, Gephardt and Lieberman will NOT vote for Dean as they'll consider Bush the lesser of two evils in these times. Also, Dean will get NO republican crossover vote, like a more MODERATE democrat would and Clinton did during his first campaign.

Dean scares the crap out of a lot of democrats too, not just republicans.