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Eight of the Democratic presidential candidates ganged up on front-runner Howard Dean and former Vice President Al Gore, hoping to take the luster off Gore's newly minted endorsement of Dean. The final faceoff of the year found Dean's rivals passing on their usual criticism of his policies, focused as they were on Gore's blockbuster endorsement. They appealed to the independent streak of voters here, and suggested the former vice president's support smacked of old-style party machine politics.

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