Washington, Feb 15: Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign bandwagon got more crowded with the Democratic Party's frontrunner seizing two more nomination contests. In the capital city of Washington, formally known as the District of Columbia (DC), Kerry scored a surprise victory in a caucus meeting that dean Had been favoured to win.
Dean had easily won a non-binding ''beauty pageant'' primary in DC just a month earlier, but Kerry scored 47 per cent of the vote, the local democratic party reported. Al Sharpton, an African-American minister and civil rights activist, won 20 per cent in the majority-black capital city, and Dean fell to an embarrassing third-place finish with 17 per cent.
In the western state of Nevada, best known for deserts and gambling hub Las Vegas, Kerry, a US Senator from Massachusetts, was the only candidate to have campaigned in person, and he secured 63 per cent of the vote. Dean, a former Governor of Vermont, was second with 17 per cent. Bureau Report