tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57861702011-04-21T18:19:00.369-05:00Of nine most popular candidates only one can challenge George W. Bush in his re-election bid. If they don't politically destroy each other on the way there, then one can sit in the oval office in 2005. But if they do start playing hard ball and slinging mud it will be fun to watch. So lets sit back and watch the politics unfold Luishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13499415531513563879noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5786170.post-1070370749774108892003-12-02T08:12:00.000-05:002003-12-02T10:16:52.246-05:00

Some of the campaigns that opted to stay within the federal public financing system will receive some money soon . Wesley Clark's Campaign is set to receive the most, $3.7 million followed by Joe Lieberman, $3.6 million. John Edwards will receive $3.4 million, Dick Gephardt will receive $3.1 million and $100,000 for Al Sharpton. Clearly the candidate who benefits most from this arrangement is

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Wesley Clark has been throwing mud when it comes to fellow Democratic candidate Howard Dean. The latest in statements made by Clark accused Dean of evading the military draft during the Vietnam conflict on a medical exemption and then going skiing. The accusation if true really would not mean much since both our current president and former president never served in Vietnam. Clinton dodged the

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Joe Lieberman is upset about not being involved in an arrangement to appear in the next democratic debate. The two other senators, John Edwards and John Kerry, will participate through satellite and they will appear on TV screens at the actual debate. The candidates will not appear because of the battle on capital hill about the Medicare Lieberman was originally not going to participate, but

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Carol Moseley Braun has named Patricia Ireland, former president for the National Organization for Women, to head her campaign. She has lost three other key members of her campaign including her treasurer. The campaign insists that they will not drop out of the Democratic race yet. The Braun campaign has made few public appearances, other than the televised ones, but that is expected

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Some states have dropped their presidential primaries. This will make the remaining primaries very important in gauging the ability of a candidate to pull in votes. I think this may allow the more popular candidates to win by focusing their campaign resources in fewer states. The reasons cited for canceling the primaries are lack of necessary funding and the irrelevance of the latter primaries

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A few days after announcing that he fired his campaign director, John Kerry has lost a couple more members of his team. The press secretary and deputy finance director for his campaign have resigned over the dismissal of the campaign manager. Robert Gibbs was the press secretary for the Kerry campaign and will be replaced by a former worker for John Edwards, the senator from South Carolina who

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The controversy about his comments regarding the confederate flag should end soon, now that Howard Dean has apologized. This is what Dick Gephardt and John Edwards wanted in the debate. Dean said he will continue to court southern voters for the Democratic nomination and possibly the presidential race. As stated many times in this blog the South can be crucial towards winning a presidential

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The potential endorsement of Howard Dean by a large segment of the AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union, has worried the other campaigns into trying to block it. The members of the voting council will decide on Thursday whether or not to endorse Dean. They will not consider any other candidate. This has pulled together the campaigns of John Edwards, Dick Gephardt and John Kerry.

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Wesley Clark offered his health care plan. It would extend coverage to almost 32 million Americans that do not already have it. The government would subsidize health care for those who have difficulty affording it, and it would cost $772 billion. The plan would be paid for by $125 billion in savings created by offering bids for Medicare services and improving the information technology used by

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The Democratic candidates varied on their positions on the post war Iraq during the debate on Sunday. Candidates like John Kerry, who recently voted against the $87 billion GW asked to continue American efforts in Iraq, were criticized by candidates like Dick Gephardt, who voted in favor of the bill because Gephardt felt to do otherwise would send mixed signals to deployed troops. The thinking

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Joe Lieberman said if elected president he would appoint Republican senator John McCain as Secretary of Defense on the radio yesterday and . McCain, who ran against Bush in 2000 for the Republican Nomination for president, served in the Navy for 22 years and was a prisoner of war for more than five years. This is interesting because Lieberman is a conservative Democrat, the kind of Democrat the

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The campaigns of Wesley Clark and Joe Lieberman have decided to stop their activity in Iowa and pursue later primaries. Lieberman will focus on the primary following the one in Iowa, which is Delaware. This is because he has not campaigned as much as he would have liked to be competitive in Iowa. Clark will focus on just getting into the top four vote-getter in New Hampshire because of the

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I digress from usual post of Democratic politics because of something I read today. It was completely missed by most of the media. Which I blame for the rush to support a war and the public compelling democrats who against their better judgment voted to give the president the power to act unilaterally in Iraq. The war on Iraq and the war on terrorism have been counter productive to our

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In his latest e-mails to followers Howard Dean blasted John Kerry on his voting record. This is consistent for the Dean campaign which has used the Internet to raise record sums. The campaign has sent out e-mail to those who subscribe . Dean who until the last debate was the focus of bitter criticism from Dick Gephardt and John Kerry has been using e-mail as the medium through which he

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Wesley Clark became the whipping boy Dean last night. The debates which until now had been attempts by some of the candidates to take some steam from the Dean campaign changed pace. Clark was criticized for siding with GW on the war in Iraq as well as the bush tax cuts. Clark has changed his position on both. Another issue that plagues the member of congress in contention for the candidacy is

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Talk of Bob Graham dropping his contention for the Democratic candidacy is circling the Internet. Graham does not have as much money as some of the other candidates. It is this that has helped fuel the rumors that he may quit the race in the next couple days. There are two possibilities if Graham stays in the race. He may focus on Iowa, which is the first of the primaries, or he may focus on

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Howard Dean made an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Dean made fun of himself as a fundraiser. He shot a scene on the street playing the guitar with signs that said "your change for REAL CHANGE" and "will play for presidency." The appearance was only about 7 minutes long. Dean said he was confident about beating Bush despite Bush's fundraising. According to the USA Today the

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Last week it was reported that Wesley Clark's had a tax plan that would repeal any tax cuts for American earning over $200,000. This would create about $100 billion over two years. Homeland security would receive $40 billion, Medicaid would also receive $40 billion and job creation would recipe $20 billion. I read a recent article by David Brooks in The Atlantic magazine about the race to

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The reports from CNN about Wesley Clark's performance at today's democratic debate were less than stellar. Clark was quoted as saying he was pro-choice, against the war and pro health. That kind of generic stance will not separate Clark from the crowd. But the fireworks in the debate came from an exchange between Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean. Gephardt said Dean had sided with former

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Some of the newer polls from Sept. 19-21 show that John Kerry and Wesley Clark are each tied to the president in one on one surveys. Clark, Howard Dean, Kerry, Joe Lieberman and Dick Gephardt are the top five candidates according to the poll, which as predicted moved Bob Graham and John Edwards, the two southern senators seeking the nomination, to single digit returns. Only Gephardt from

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Now that Wesley Clark and John Edwards have officially declared their candidacy some of the other candidates will have to rethink strategies about what will separate them from the other nominees. Bob Graham will no longer be the only Democrat from the South, a situation that made him a definite contender for at least the vice-presidency. Its is important to note that since Lyndon Johnson left

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I was digging up information on some of the candidates on yahoo today. I try to keep informed and look back at older news to see if I missed anything. I read an old article from Rush Limbaugh about Wesley Clark. The March article scrutinizes Clark for criticizing the troops in the Middle East and the strategy of the war. Limbaugh seems to forget that Clark is a retired general who for over 30

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Nearly a week after calling the President a miserable failure on foreign politics, Dick Gephardt has posted on his Web site information about Howard Dean. On it Gephardt bashes his fellow candidate on Dean's stance regarding Medicare and Social Security. The Web site lists that Dean allegedly said Medicare was one of the worst things that ever happened. Dean is reported to have said that

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To blog everything about everyone would take time away from my unemployment. Currently I am a double major at the University of Florida in political science and journalism. In order not to have my youth consumed by the monitor and bore most of you with candidates who you won't remember in the next few months we'll just do the meat and potatoes. Most posts will deal with specific issues or

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