lack of structure, poor media training and a risky strategy entirely focused on winning Iowa. Trippi suggested that even if Dean acted more controlled at the rally, "I'm not sure it would've mattered." Graff also suggested the scream "sucked up all the oxygen" out of John Edwards' polling numbers in the Iowa caucus, causing him to lose. Christine Pelosi stated Dean had been doomed to fail after his third-place result in Iowa. Pacific Standard analyzed a lack of insider support (a strong factor in a candidate's chance of becoming a presidential nominee) already ruining his prospects beforehand, as his public attacks towards Republicans and Democrats who supported the Iraq War already turned off any desire from insiders to endorse him. Historian David Eisenbach said that although the scream contributed to Dean's loss, it would not have done so without the media's previous crazy-person portrayal of Dean. Media scholar Robert Thompson suggested that the scream would have worked for Dean far better if he campaigned in 2016. Although Dean supporters argued he was not aware of how the microphone's sensitivity gave a false impression of his tone, Salzman and political scientist Samuel L. Popkin held Dean accountable for not understanding the system of presidential races; Popkin states he only spoke to those in the room and not to a nationwide television audience that was previously unaware of him, and Salzman reasoned any bad moment of a candidate's speech would have been significantly covered regardless of "how good 99 percent of your speech was." Later years On July 27, 2005, New York governor George E. Pataki imitated the Dean scream at The Water Club when listing states he would campaign in if he ran for president. The Dean scream can be heard as an audio sample in the 2008 Breaking Bad episode "Crazy Handful of Nothin'", when character Walter White blows drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca's offices up with fulminated mercury. In 2022, the scream was sampled in commercials for Mike's HARDER Lemonade. Dean reenacted the scream on May 14, 2015 at the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, listing states governor Chris Christie would not win if he ran for president. NBC News, in 2019, reported that "even years later, people turned the 'scream' into dance remixes, YouTube performances and famous comedy skits." Dean claimed in an interview, "I look back on it with some amusement. I get asked for autographs for it