Iowa overturns conventional wisdom about politics
By Chuck Raasch, GNS Political Writer
DES MOINES — Iowa destroyed conventional wisdom.

In a frigid night of caucuses, Democratic activists revived the once-moribund campaign of Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, exposed serious vulnerabilities in the still-formidable crusade of ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and served notice that Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina is a newcomer worth deeper consideration in the eight states with primaries and caucuses over the next two weeks. And in the end, Iowans ended the long presidential dreams of Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri.