Dean picks up a Pa. delegate from the Philadelphia area

HARRISBURG (AP) -- Sen. John Kerry won Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary by a landslide, but one of the 178 delegates the state sends to the party's national convention will be pledged to Howard Dean.
Dean, the former Vermont governor, quit the nomination race in February but left his name on the Pennsylvania ballot. In last week's election, he attracted more than the required 15 percent of the vote in the 1st Congressional District, which includes parts of Philadelphia and Delaware counties, according to party officials who analyzed the returns.
The Dean delegate is Mark B. Cohen, a 30-year veteran of the state House of Representatives from Philadelphia. Cohen acknowledges that his role in the July convention in Boston will be largely symbolic since Kerry has far more than the 2,162 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination.
"I doubt I will be called on to vote for Dean" at the convention, Cohen said.
Voting breakdown
Statewide in Pennsylvania, Dean and fellow former candidate John Edwards, the senator from North Carolina, each won 10 percent of the vote, while U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Lyndon LaRouche each won less than 5 percent. Only Kerry, with 74 percent, and Dean qualified for delegates.
Cohen said Dean's ability to win delegates even after he quit the race shows the "enduring popularity" of his views, particularly his call to mobilize the party's liberal base. He also noted Dean received especially strong support in black and Hispanic communities in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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