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Article: WAR VOTE COULD HURT IN '08 RACE FEINGOLD NOTABLE FOR SAYING NO.(METRO)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- October 18, 2005
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Byline: Liz Sidoti Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Potential Democratic presidential candidates who voted to give President Bush the authority to use force in Iraq could face a political problem -- they supported a war that their party's rank-and-file now strongly view as a mistake.
Their pro-war votes -- cast three years ago -- could haunt them as they seek early support among die-hard Democrats and gauge whether to launch formal candidacies for the party's 2008 presidential nomination.
"For a lot of activists, this could be a threshold issue. They may be looking for somebody without any taint of prior support for the war," said John J. Pitney, ...