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

To: sylvester80 who wrote (8780)	1/10/2004 4:11:14 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10965

DAVENPORT, Iowa - Democratic candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) visited vote-rich eastern Iowa on Saturday with fellow Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, who called Kerry the most credible Democrat in the race. Candidates and their high-profile supporters spread across Iowa, just nine days before its kickoff caucuses. Polls showed former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites) retaining his front-runner status in the state but rivals Dick Gephardt (news - web sites) close behind and Kerry running third. Kerry is "full of steel and determination," Kennedy told people in a Davenport meeting hall, one of several stops on a hectic day of statewide campaigning by presidential hopefuls. "Those are the qualities that I want in my Democratic nominee." Among the high-profile events planned Saturday was a rally in Dubuque featuring Dean and former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) and Sen. Tom Harkin, who boosted the Dean campaign with his endorsement Friday. Gephardt, the Missouri congressman, was in the state defending his call to repeal all of President Bush (news - web sites)'s tax cut to pay for his expanded health care proposal. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina unveiled a plan he said would lift 10 million Americans out of poverty. Kerry, claiming his campaign is designed to "offer America hope," urged activists to focus on more than the emotions Dean is stirring. "We need to offer not just anger, but answers," Kerry said. "We need to offer not just slogans, but solutions." Kennedy said he has known Kerry since 1971 and assured supporters that "I don't come to Iowa to talk about someone I don't know." Kerry, a decorated war veteran, contended he is the strongest candidate to oppose President Bush during a time of war. "If he wants to make national security a central issue of this campaign, I have for him only three words he understands: Bring it on," Kerry said. Kerry said he would scour the tax code to wipe out benefits for the wealthiest Americans, but would continue to keep the middle-class tax cuts in place. Gephardt has come under fire from Kerry and other rivals for pushing to repeal even portions of the tax cut that helps middle-class families. Visiting a farm owned by a couple he said is struggling with enormous health care costs, Gephardt said they had received just $375 under Bush's tax cut but would gain $1,129 a year under his proposal. "My health care plan will put more money on the kitchen table of middle-class families than George Bush's failed tax cut," Gephardt said. "I also guarantee every family access to quality health care."