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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004

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To: Mephisto who wrote (6443)11/13/2003 1:47:15 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 10965
 
Dean has 600,000 signed-up supporters. It is an energetic bunch but they are hardly more than a small portion of the Democratic party. At present Dean has about 15% support and Kerry is promising to come back and beat him in New Hampshire.

Even if Dean beats Kerry back, Dean will face enormous hurdles. Remember, if you took the other candidates support together and compared it to Dean's together they can beat dean handily. If this goes to a brokered convention that is exactly what will happen. Nothing unfair about it at all.

Eugene McCarthy waged a similar campaign but that was during the height of the Vietnam War. Dean doesn't have any single firebrand issue which sets him apart. In fact, if you compare his policies and Kerry's, the only differences are Kerry wants to keep middleclass tax cuts, move more gradually into national health care and ha a much more ambitious clean energies program.

Remember also, congress and the Senate are likely to remain in GOP hands in 2005 so the country is not going to be changed into a liberal utopia.
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