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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (25055)	1/18/2004 10:15:08 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 793673

Not that I back Kerry, but last time I checked, the First Lady is not in the line of succession if something happened to incapicitate the President. So who cares where she was born ?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (25055)	1/18/2004 10:27:38 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793673

Teresa Heinz Kerry is not French; she was born in Mozambique and her ancestry is Portuguese (at least on her father's side). She also speaks 5 languages. Do a Google search on "Teresa Heinz Kerry" and the first ones than come up are quite flattering. She is apparently quite an asset to her husband on the campaign trail now.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (25055)	1/20/2004 12:25:16 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 793673

DES MOINES, Jan. 19 - Iowa Democrats dealt a serious blow to the once front-running campaign of Howard Dean here Monday night, and to predictions that the Democratic presidential race might end as quickly as it began. With Sen. John F. Kerry's (D-Mass.) big victory, the party faces an open and potentially protracted contest to find a nominee to challenge President Bush in the fall. Iowa voters not only turned Dean's campaign and the Democratic race upside down, but they also signaled that they did not believe Dean's message of anger was sufficient to take against Bush in the general election. "It is a strong statement that Democrats are interested in the vision, they are interested in what you are going to do and also they are very interested in who is electable," said Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (D). "They want to field the first team when we go against President Bush because we're going to need the first team." An obviously disappointed Joe Trippi, Dean's campaign manager, said Dean will regroup in New Hampshire. "There are three tickets out of here and we got one of them -- it's not the one we wanted," he said. Trippi blamed Monday's defeat on the weeks of pounding that his candidate took from the other candidates. "We got in a fight with Gephardt and these other two guys flew up the chute," he said. Trippi said Kerry and Edwards co-opted Dean's message that he will change the culture of special interest power in Washington but said the former Vermont governor is determined to reclaim it. "We're going to get our message back and fight for real change," he said. Democratic strategists said Dean still has considerable assets to bring to the race, starting with what is regarded as a solid organization in New Hampshire, a growing list of elected officials who have endorsed him nationally and most of all his Internet-based, money-raising operation, which took in nearly $40 million in 2003. That will give him the resources to fight in more states than many of his rivals. But the battering he took -- and the self-inflicted wounds he delivered -- have left him a far more attractive candidate to many Democratic voters than he was just a few months ago. In Iowa, Dean had the highest negatives of any of the major candidates competing here, and rival strategists said the same has begun to happen to him in New Hampshire. It is questionable whether Dean can survive a loss in New Hampshire next week. Clark may have plenty of resources to compete against Dean in the coming weeks. Edwards will need to raise money quickly and Kerry, who bet everything on Iowa and took out a $6 million loan to help finance his campaign here, will either have to raise a lot or tap his own resources again. The contests come quickly after New Hampshire. On Feb. 3, seven states hold contests, the biggest being in South Carolina. Edwards has said he must win South Carolina and the Iowa showing gives him a significant boost toward that goal. But Clark also has set his sights there, as has Dean. Kerry's campaign has yet to make decisions about where to commit their resources after New Hampshire. Then comes Michigan, where Dean's labor support could be important, and Wisconsin after that, with a potentially climactic series of primaries in California, New York and Ohio on March 2. "The challenge after New Hampshire is who has the wherewithal to become a truly national candidate," a Clark adviser said. "You can see campaigns picking out states as targets of opportunity, but all that does is lead you to a much more protracted battle. . . . I just think the road to the final two has gotten more complicated." Staff writer David S. Broder contributed to this report from New Hampshire. washingtonpost.com