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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (9078)	1/18/2004 3:17:55 PM
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Clark Wins Backing from Ex-Nominee George McGovern news.yahoo.com By David Morgan MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Wesley Clark (news - web sites), whose opposition to the Iraq (news - web sites) war has come under renewed scrutiny in recent days, won the endorsement on Sunday of George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic Party nominee known for his progressive, antiwar politics. At a pancake breakfast in Keene, N.H., McGovern described the retired general and former NATO (news - web sites) commander as the only one of eight Democratic candidates with "a success strategy" for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq. Clark, 59, came under fire from Democratic rivals last week for having voted for Republicans Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) decades ago. And testimony Clark gave before Congress in 2002 caused some rivals to question whether he has been consistent in his opposition to the war in Iraq. Clark responded by opening up his personal records. "There are a lot of good Democrats in this race, but Wes Clark is the best Democrat. He is a true progressive. He's the Democrat's Democrat," said McGovern, who lost the 1972 New Hampshire primary to Edmund Muskie but won the party's nomination. An outspoken critic of U.S. policy in Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s, McGovern suffered a landslide defeat in the 1972 general election against Nixon. McGovern, a former South Dakota senator, also applauded Clark's proposal for raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans as part of a tax overhaul that would also abolish income taxes for low-income families. The endorsement came as opinion polls showed Clark in a dead heat with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) for second place in the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 27, behind front-runner Howard Dean (news - web sites). The former Vermont governor's grass roots campaign was the first to make war opposition a main issue of the Democratic race. The Clark-Kerry battle for No. 2 in New Hampshire tightened over the weekend with the two campaigns claiming rival endorsements and bickering over charges of negative campaign tactics. Clark won the endorsement of filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore on Saturday. Kerry, 60, picked up a pair of Sunday newspaper endorsements from the Concord Monitor and the Nashua Telegraph. Both papers cited Kerry's government experience and voting record. "As president, he wouldn't be a novice or overly dependent on advisers ... as he takes the reins in the Oval Office," the Telegraph said in its editorial. The latest American Research Group daily tracking poll on Sunday showed Kerry's popularity rising to 19 percent of likely New Hampshire voters, up from 10 percent early last week. That put him neck-and-neck with Clark, whose New Hampshire campaign advanced to a high of 24 percent on Thursday, but drifted back to 20 percent by Sunday. The survey of more than 600 Democratic voters showed Dean's front-runner position falling to 28 percent, from 36 percent on Monday. The results have a 4 percent margin of error. North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) had 8 percent of likely voters, just ahead of Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman who stood at 6 percent. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri had 3 percent. Clark and Lieberman opted out of the Iowa caucuses to focus on New Hampshire.