The famous “Dean scream” on the evening of the Iowa caucuses in 2004 fixed Dean’s image in the public mind in a way that has been impossible to undo. A transcript of the event would record a rather thorough and reasonable listing of states Dean planned to campaign in, but along with it came a sound that had not come from a presidential candidate before—or at least not caught live on every network. It was that sound, a Western yee-haw delivered with a New England twang and a guttural New York intensity, along with relentless re-airing of the video, that did him in. He had certainly delivered
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