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Article: A surge in candidates.(POLITICS II)(election in United States)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 12, 2007
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THOUGH it is winter, the earth teems with growth: presidential campaigns, green and hopeful, yearning for victory in Iowa a year from now.
The Democratic field has filled in nicely, with a lower tier that includes Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich, Tom Vilsack, and Bill Richardson. These men have varying credentials and qualities--Biden is a potent senator, with real intelligence--though in presidential terms they are all flyweights, interesting only as they impede other candidates. Vilsack is a former governor of Iowa; Richardson, despite his last name, is Hispanic; both may act as placeholders, tying down blocs of votes. Orbiting above them is Al Gore, who ...