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To: Keith Fauci who wrote (529684)	1/26/2004 5:03:38 PM
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. -- New Hampshire primary leaders John F. Kerry and Howard Dean swapped criticism of each other's foreign policy credentials as the Democratic presidential candidates entered the final day of campaigning before votes are cast. Dean said his opposition to the Iraq war was a significant difference between himself and Kerry, who voted for the resolution authorizing the U.S. invasion. He also criticized the Massachusetts senator for voting against the 1991 Gulf War. "A lot of folks in the campaign, including Senator Kerry, complain about my lack of foreign policy experience," Dean, a former Vermont governor, said at a rally Sunday night. "But he voted not to go to war when the oil wells were on fire and the troops were in Kuwait." Sen. John Edwards, who finished second to Kerry in last week's Iowa caucuses and promised to wage a positive campaign, said Kerry has not been clear on the war. "I think he's said some different things at different points in time," the North Carolina senator said as the candidates made the rounds of Sunday's television news shows. "So I think there's been some inconsistency." Kerry asked Dean to "stop running a negative campaign," even as he suggested that Dean can't get elected. During door-to-door campaigning Sunday, Kerry said his rival is weak on foreign policy issues, and favors higher taxes for middle-class voters. "The Republicans will just kill us on this," Kerry said. "Between foreign policy and taxes, I think it is a serious problem." Kerry didn't sway David and Diana Frothingham after a 10-minute chat in their driveway, they said they still have to think about whether they will vote for Kerry or Dean on Tuesday. Kerry, winner of the Iowa caucuses, has the advantage in most polls taken over the weekend, but Dean appears to have stopped the hemorrhaging of support after his Iowa loss and a frenzied concession speech last week. Dean has been campaigning with his wife, who did not travel with him outside Vermont until last week. Judy Dean is a physician who said she couldn't leave her patients, but she canceled her Monday appointments to spend a second day by her husband's side in New Hampshire. "Whether it's our careers, raising our children or being there for the ones we love, we all struggle and juggle to do it all," she said in a brief introduction of her husband at a woman's forum in Manchester. Dean said his wife was helping him recover after the Iowa loss. His campaign gave undecided voters a copy of the couple's first TV interview, on ABC's "Primetime Live," which aired Thursday night. New Hampshire is known for promoting underdogs and surprises. Polls showed 8 percent to 15 percent of voters were still undecided, and many more willing to reconsider their early picks. Edwards is fighting for third place with two other candidates who sat out last week's caucuses, Lieberman and Clark. "This is Joe-mentum here in New Hampshire!" Lieberman said. Clark targeted President Bush, saying the White House's preoccupation with a missile defense program distracted him from the threat of al-Qaida before the 2001 terrorist attacks. Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich toured New Hampshire on Sunday emphasizing his staunch opposition to the war in Iraq. He asserted he was the only candidate who went on record from the beginning as being skeptical of the Bush administration's claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. A victory would propel Kerry to the Feb. 3 primary states with momentum and money. Dean needs a surprise victory or close second to regain his footing after Iowa. The rest of the field hopes to exceed their modest expectations, then score their first victories Feb. 3. In South Carolina, Al Sharpton assured black churchgoers that a vote for him will get their message all the way to the Democratic convention. "Know that I am going on all the way to the end no matter what," he said. (AP) whdh.com