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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (4284)	8/25/2003 3:05:09 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 10965

Poll: Schwarzenegger Trails in Calif. Remaining GOP Rivals Refuse to Quit Race URL:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41843-2003Aug25.html By Beth Fouhy The Associated Press Monday, August 25, 2003; 10:17 AM SAN FRANCISCO - Arnold Schwarzenegger's top remaining Republican rivals refused to drop out of the gubernatorial race despite a new poll showing Schwarzenegger trailing the leading Democratic hopeful and pressure on the GOP to unify behind one candidate. "This horse is in the race to the finish line," state Sen. Tom McClintock said Sunday, a day after fellow conservative Bill Simon abandoned the race, arguing that the crowded field could hurt GOP chances. A spokesman for former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth said Ueberroth also plans to stay in the contest, and will begin airing radio ads this week. The vows from McClintock and Ueberroth came during a weekend that yet again reshuffled the ever-changing race, with Simon giving up, Democrats offering signs of increasing unity and the poll results showing that Schwarzenegger may no longer be the leading man. The new poll, conducted by the Los Angeles Times, showed a big lead for Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, the only major Democrat on the replacement ballot. Bustamante had 35 percent support among likely voters, compared to 22 percent for Schwarzenegger, a significant reversal of earlier polls showing a virtual dead heat or a Schwarzenegger lead. Bustamante strategist Richie Ross said that in response, the lieutenant governor said, "we have to work harder. We're working 19 hours a day, and he told me to bump it up to 20." Trailing well behind the two leaders were McClintock with 12 percent, Ueberroth with 7 percent and Simon with 6 percent. Simon, last year's Republican nominee for governor, abandoned his campaign Saturday, after the poll was conducted. The poll of 801 likely voters had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. Some Republicans saw the poll results as evidence that the field of replacement candidates should be winnowed. "The headline here is that Republicans are winning but the vote is split, so pressure by Republicans to coalesce behind a single candidate will be greater than ever," said Allan Hoffenblum, a former Republican strategist. "It's a competitive race, and it needs to be turned into a two-person race between Schwarzenegger and Bustamante." Not surprisingly, the Schwarzenegger campaign agreed. "Mr. Simon spelled it out clearly yesterday - there are too many candidates in the race," said Schwarzenegger spokesman Sean Walsh. The recall ballot will have two parts. Voters first will be asked to vote yes or no on whether to recall Davis, and then will choose from a list of 135 candidates to replace him if he is recalled. On the Democratic side, the poll was the latest piece of good news for Bustamante, whose campaign picked up several key endorsements in recent days. Even Davis, who has opposed the lieutenant governor's "no on recall, yes on Bustamante" strategy, edged closer to adopting that plan as the Democrats' best alternative. "There is no question that I have a lot of confidence in Cruz Bustamante - he is the most qualified person on question number two," Davis told CNN Sunday. "I understand why other Democrats would want a safety valve - it is a perfectly rational position to take." © 2003 The Associated Press

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (4284)	8/25/2003 11:31:53 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 10965

Clark backers raise close to $1 million for White House bid By James Harding in Washington The Financial Times Published: August 25 2003 21:27 news.ft.com Activists trying to persuade Wesley Clark (pictured), the retired four-star general, to run for president said on Monday that by this weekend they would have $1m pledged to finance a bid for the White House. The group behind draft-wesleyclark.com told a Washington briefing they had helped mobilise 30,000 people to write letters to Mr Clark urging him to stand. The polling data compiled by Zogby International also showed Mr Clark was just beginning to prick the US public consciousness, making it into the top five most popular contenders for the Democratic nomination. The opinion polls and the draftwesleyclark.com news conference showed just as convincingly that Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont once dismissed as a long-shot for the nomination, is now in the lead. The Zogby poll put support for Mr Dean's candidacy at 16.6 per cent, clearly on an upward trend. Gen Clark got 4.9 per cent, having barely - if at all - registered in previous polls. John Hlinko, one of the co-founders of the movement to co-opt Gen Clark into running for the Democratic nomination, said on Monday that the organisers had been "blown away" by the public response to the website they set up in April. But Gen Clark was conspicuous by his absence on Monday. He has acknowledged that he is taking seriously the public's pleas to declare his candidacy, but has still not revealed any intention to run at this late stage in the contest for the Democratic nomination. The primary elections for the Democratic nomination begin in January. The attention being generated by Gen Clark's would-be campaign workers - coupled with the momentum being built by the Dean campaign - is fuelling speculation that Gen Clark is being positioned as an ideal running mate for the former Vermont governor. Mr Dean has been a vocal opponent of President George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, which has earned him recognition and support among the ranks of anxious and angry Democrats. Gen Clark, the former Nato allied supreme commander, would therefore add much needed national security credentials to a possible Dean ticket, Democratic strategists say. But Mr Hlinko, a Democrat, and his co-founder Josh Margulies, a Republican, were on Monday pushing Gen Clark for the presidency. The West Point graduate and Rhodes scholar, they said, not only boasted training as an economist but also 33 years of military experience that would serve him well as a "wartime president".