Kerry Strong In All 7 Races On Tuesday

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1803&ncid=1803&e=1&u=/washpost/20040201/pl_washpost/a1840_2004jan31

COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 31 -- Riding the momentum from his recent victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) is leading or competitive in all seven states with primaries or caucuses on Tuesday, and his opponents have adopted a divide-to-survive strategy to deny him a sweep.


Tuesday's contests stretch from the South across the Midwest and Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains, and interviews with politicians in those regions, plus the latest polls, underscore the degree to which Kerry is poised to take a big step in his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.


Kerry spent little time or money in most of the seven states before his win in New Hampshire last Tuesday, but his early victories have transformed the races everywhere. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D), who has been traveling across his state to attend rallies with many of the candidates, said Saturday that Kerry's momentum would be hard to overcome. "It's an incredible surge," he said.


Kerry is the only candidate competing actively in all states, with his rivals cherry-picking among the seven in hopes of slowing Kerry's candidacy, forcing the nomination battle into the next several rounds of contests and keeping their hopes alive. "What every campaign is looking for is to stretch out the calendar," said Matt Bennett, communications director for retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark.

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[Darth_Kitten]

1. Yeah, but where does he stand on the ISSUES......

and I see the media is really hyping him as the favourite.

[TheWatcher]

2. This is going to get me flamed by Kerry supporters......

But I hope it doesn't.....

It is just my point of view.....

Let me preface this by saying I have not chosen a candidate thus far, and I am still looking at all of them.....Although being a realist at this point I think it is becoming clearer who actually has a chance to win the nomination.....

And for Kerry supporters let me preface this by saying I am NOT against your candidate, this is just an observation I've had watchign all this unfold over the past few days.....

Having said that, I have been following everything very closely from the Genesis of the campaigns, and I have to say from an objective perspective, I find it odd that Kerry has surged so much over this small amount of time.....

He looked dead in the water to me in the past few months, and as much as some like to say that the Dean phenomenon was manufactured to a great extent, the surge and all of a sudden front-running status of Kerry looks a bit contrived and manufactured as well.....It just doesn't "feel" right.....I can't really explain it yet....It just doesn't.....

To stress, NOTHING against Kerry.....Bush must be beaten at all costs, or this country is finished.....

However, sometimes I can't help but watch all of this, and wonder if the joke is on all of us.....

It seems as much as Dean was the "Chosen One" by the media these past few months, in a few short DAYS, now all of a sudden Kerry seems to be carrying that status.....

Call me paranoid or whatever you like, but it doesn't feel "genuine" to me.....

But maybe it's me.....

I can tell you this for sure.....

If the man is the nominee, he has my vote, for better or for worse.....

We really don't have a choice.....

Bush must go.....

[hang a left]

3. Watcher, I have been wondering also, I am also

not committed. It sure seems to me that Kerry has come from the middle bottom of the pack, after the shakeup in his campaign staff, to front-runner status. It is very suspicious, but not suprizing, I imagined that the "chosen one" would emerge. I just thought it was going to be Clark.

[GoldenOldie]

4. Kerry's Win???

Where do they come up with this and who decides what percentage Kerry is winning by????
I have been contacted by each of the candidates suppporters and also by the individual candidates taped request for my vote...knowing I am a registered Democrat yet....no one has called to asked who I am voting for. I will vote on Tuesday and I am still not committed to a candidate....but I am sure it will not be John Kerry. It angers me that the media whores and the republican pundits think they know where my vote is going and are willing and ready to declare who the Democrat winner will be before the polls are even opened. Kinda like delaring the Presidential winner when the first Eastern State announces the winner....and the Midwest and West are still hours away from closing their polling sites?????
I will support whoever is the final candidate but don't let "THEM" do the canvassing.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. An interesting site re: Candidates on the issues

http://www.issues2000.org/default.htm