Updated 3.2.2004
The following is a collection of profiles that have appeared in The Providence Journal newspaper of candidates for president in 2004. The stories may be staff written or from wire services. |
In the running
2.2.2004 |
Edwards
employing personal touch in quest for nomination
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- "How many times in your life has somebody said
to you, 'You can't do this?' " John Edwards asked a group of worshippers
yesterday morning after a stirring, two-hour service in a cavernous brick
church on the industrial apron of this Southern capital.
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3.23.2003 |
Hawk
and dove: Sen. John F. Kerry has been both
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- When Sen. John F. Kerry shopped his presidential wares
in a handsome old brick house here one balmy Sunday afternoon this winter,
he attracted an enviable cross section of South Carolina's Democratic
elite.
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7.20.2003
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In 1978, Cleveland was in freefall. The banks were
pressuring the city's young and diminutive mayor, Dennis Kucinich, to
sell the city's municipal electricity system to cover $4.5 million in
debt. Kucinich refused, and the city went into default.
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8.24.2003
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Alfred Sharpton strides through Reagan National Airport.
Hair swept back in trademark James Brown pompadour, a cell phone attached
to his ear, he instructs an aide to cancel a private meeting with New
York's mayor. On call-interrupt, he talks South Carolina primary strategy.
And he keeps up a patter with those hustling to keep pace.
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Out of the race
9.21.2003
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From his plebe year at West Point, retired Army Gen.
Wesley Clark was always first in his class, a step ahead of his peers.
His rise to the top of the U.S. military seemed almost preordained, given
his drive, intellect and burning will to win.
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5.18.2003 |
The Democratic candidate and the GOP president both
went to Yale. Both liked to party. Their grandmothers even have a connection.
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8.10.2003
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STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Dick Gephardt strolled under the
"Beef and Booze" greeting at the Boathouse bar here, shook a
few hands and positioned himself by an inflatable Budweiser beach ball.
With 50 or so Democratic faithful assembled to sip happy hour beer and
size up this fellow Midwesterner running for president, he spoke about
family, values and, most passionately, his personal and "moral"
mission to provide health care to every American.
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7.27.2003
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MIAMI LAKES, Fla. -- Since his first run for public
office in 1966, Bob Graham has been unbeatable in Florida. He's been a
state legislator, a two-term governor and now a U.S. senator for 16 years
and counting.
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7.13.2003 |
Some analysts say that the Connecticut senator may
not be liberal enough for the Democratic activists who play a key role
in the early primaries.
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