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WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Rep. Dick Gephardt's vision of U.S. foreign policy involves using U.S. leadership to "build a strong global economy," he said in a speech in New York. Gephardt, D-Mo., is contesting the lead in Monday's Iowa caucuses with former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. He told the Council on Foreign Relations if elected president, he would "build a strong global economy through American leadership" and "expand economic growth and development through a progressive trade policy that advances an international minimum wage to raise the standard of living around the world and make trade work for both developed...

A 3-Way, Bordering on a 4-Way Race in Iowa; Another Big Day for Kerry; Dean's Lead Widens to 5 Points Over Gephardt, According to New Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby Poll Former Vermont Governor Dr. Howard Dean has expanded his lead over Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt in Iowa caucus polling, 28%-23%, according to the new Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby Poll. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry holds third place with a one-point increase to 17%, followed by North Carolina Senator John Edwards who bounced back to 14%. Dean has opened an 11-point lead over Gephardt in western Iowa, 4 points in the east, and 3 in the central part....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In a thinly veiled slap at Howard Dean, Democratic presidential contender Dick Gephardt said Tuesday that "railing against the system" isn't enough when it comes time to pick a challenger to President Bush on foreign policy. In remarks before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Gephardt accused Bush of conducting foreign policy based on "bluster and recycled Cold War taunts." At the same time, he said, "I'm not going to come before you ... and say what's fashionable in our politics. That I'm a Washington outsider, that I couldn't find the nation's capital on...

Released: January 13, 2004 A 3-Way, Bordering on a 4-Way Race in Iowa; Another Big Day for Kerry; Dean's Lead Widens to 5 Points Over Gephardt, According to New Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby Poll Former Vermont Governor Dr. Howard Dean has expanded his lead over Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt in Iowa caucus polling, 28%-23%, according to the new Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby Poll. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry holds third place with a one-point increase to 17%, followed by North Carolina Senator John Edwards who bounced back to 14%. Candidate Jan 10-12 % Jan 9-11% Jan 8-10 % Former VT Governor Howard Dean 28 26       25 MO...

Two of the most common words used to describe the US presidential election process are “marathon” and “circus”. Marathon because of the extended nature of the election process: the first party primaries and caucuses are this month, although the general election is not until November. Moreover, most of the candidates announce their intention to run many months—sometimes years—before the first primaries and causes, and those announcements are preceded by longer periods of exploratory committees and other preparatory work. Circus comes from the byzantine and sometimes bizarre election process, one that gives undue weight to voters in small states like Iowa...

President Bush leads major Democratic candidates by 12 to 15 points by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICEPRINCETON, NJ -- In less than a week, the voters in Iowa will have indicated their preferences for the Democratic Party's nominee for president, setting the stage for a substantial realignment in the rank order of candidates among Democratic voters nationally.Polls in Iowa show that former Vermont Governor Gov. Howard Dean and Missouri Congressman Rep. Richard Gephardt are in a competitive race for first, while Massachusetts Senator Sen. John Kerry and North Carolina Senator Sen. John Edwards are hoping to produce a...

Thank heaven for Fox News Channel. Other media are ignoring our exposé of Rep. Dick Gephardt's racist past, but FNC is raising the issue and has the White House wannabe stammering excuses. Gephardt admitted Sunday to Fox News that it was a mistake to have attended a picnic in 1980 sponsored by a group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and insisted he did not know its segregationist politics. But wait, there's more. In 1971, St. Louis Alderman Gephardt, before he became a pro-abortion leftist with ambitions for national office, led the fight against busing to integrate government schools....

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean holds a narrow two-point lead over Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt in Iowa barely one week before the state's caucuses, according to a Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby poll released on Sunday. The former Vermont governor led Gephardt 25-23 percent in the three-day tracking poll, with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in third place at 14 percent and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards moving up to a close fourth at 13 percent. "It's very, very tight," pollster John Zogby said. "It's a close race and it probably will go right to the end." The poll of...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Howard Dean holds a narrow two-point lead over Missouri Rep. Richard Gephardt in Iowa barely one week before the state's caucuses, according to a Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby poll released on Sunday. The former Vermont governor led Gephardt 25-23 percent in the three-day tracking poll, with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in third place at 14 percent and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards moving up to a close fourth at 13 percent. "It's very, very tight," pollster John Zogby said. "It's a close race and it probably will go right to the end." The poll of...

Campaign in Iowa Is Called Pivotal and Still CloseBy ADAM NAGOURNEY ES MOINES, Jan. 10 2004; Eight days before the Iowa caucuses that will start the voting for the Democratic presidential nomination, Howard Dean and Richard A. Gephardt are battling for dominance in what many Democrats describe as the most contested and potentially decisive caucus campaign their party has seen here in 16 years. Dr. Dean, the former governor of Vermont who has spent two years methodically campaigning through all 99 counties in Iowa, heads into the final week here in the unlikely position of leading the Democratic field in...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry visited vote-rich eastern Iowa on Saturday with fellow Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, who called Kerry the most credible Democrat in the race. Candidates and their high-profile supporters spread across Iowa, just nine days before its kickoff caucuses. Polls showed former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean retaining his front-runner status in the state but rivals Dick Gephardt close behind and Kerry running third. Kerry is "full of steel and determination," Kennedy told people in a Davenport meeting hall, one of several stops on a hectic day of statewide campaigning by presidential hopefuls. "Those...

Sen. John Kerry and Rep. Dick Gephardt were allowed on the New York State primary ballot even though they did not file enough nominating signatures to qualify, officials said yesterday. The candidates took advantage of a secret political peace treaty hammered out by Democratic state chairman Herman (Denny) Farrell in which they agreed not to challenge each other's petitions. Farrell's spokeswoman Chung Seto confirmed Farrell convened a September meeting to make sure the state primary is "free of challenges" over petitions. State Board of Elections spokesman Lee Daghlian said in some cases, "There are a few with shortages" of signatures....

January 9, 2004 Tape Shows Dean Maligning Iowa Caucuses By JODI WILGOREN and RACHEL L. SWARNS URLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 8 — Four years ago, Howard Dean denounced the Iowa caucuses as "dominated by special interests," saying on a Canadian television show that they "don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people, they represent the extremes." Videotapes of the show were broadcast on the NBC Nightly News on Thursday, less than two weeks before the Jan. 19 caucuses, the first contest of the Democratic nominating race. The tapes show Dr. Dean arguing that the lengthy caucus process in which neighbors...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Democrat Richard Gephardt's manager accused Howard Dean's presidential campaign on Thursday of planning to slip non-Iowans into the Jan. 19 caucuses to pose as state residents and support Dean. Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi denied the allegation and told Gephardt manager Steve Murphy "sleazy tactics like yours are exactly the reason that people have stopped participating in the political process." In a letter to Trippi and later in a conference call with reporters, Murphy said a Dean field organizer in Iowa told a Gephardt staff member some of the expected 3,500 out-of-state Dean supporters coming...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The results of an exclusive NewsChannel 8 poll show Howard Dean remains at the top of the heap among Democratic candidates. Out of 600 Iowans surveyed this week, the former Vermont governor has support from 29 percent of Democratic caucus voters. That's 3 percent higher than

More Questions Than Answers In Iowa By Charlie Cook Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2004 Notwithstanding the District of Columbia's inept and unsuccessful bid for attention with a Jan. 13 shadow Democratic presidential primary, the opening bell for the Democratic nomination rings at 6:30 p.m. (CST) on Monday, Jan. 19 in Iowa. As the Iowa caucuses get closer, the outlook for the Democratic nomination gets murkier and murkier. Tracking polls going into the holidays indicated that former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean was in first place in the mid-to-high twenties, with Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri licking at his heels in the low-to-mid-twenties....

Dick Gephardt- Spammer1/6/04 I'm going to call this right now, Dick Gephardt's presidential campaign is over. I know, I'm hardly going out on a limb here, but his webmaster just inadvertently made a public announcement that there just isn't any interest in Gephardt's campaign. Let me explain how he did so. Dick Gephardt's presidential campaign website, DickGephardt2004.com, appears to be spamming bloggers' referrer logs. It looks like his webmaster is deserately turning to porn spammer tactics in an attempt to get hit counts up and increase the site's popularity among search engines. For those of you who don't know, many...

Once upon a time, the 2004 Iowa caucus was going to be a big snooze. Rep. Dick Gephardt, an old Iowa hand from neighboring Missouri, was guaranteed to win big, so the other Democratic candidates would cede the state to him and concentrate on battling for New Hampshire. What a difference a year makes. Now it's New Hampshire that's expected to be the blowout - for Gov. Howard Dean - and Iowa has turned into a dogfight. "This has gotten a whole lot more interesting than many of us had predicted," said Prof. David Loebsack, a political scientist at Iowa's...

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By Nick Anderson, Times Staff Writer FAIRFIELD, Iowa — He's counseled the Democratic presidential candidates on all things Iowan, from the politics of ethanol to the value of hunting for rural votes in an expansive state sandwiched between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. He's grilled them in public and private, praised those who are competing in Iowa's Jan. 19 caucuses and rapped the two who are skipping the nation's first nominating contest. Now Sen. Tom Harkin has to make up his mind. Will he take sides? And if he endorses: whom?             The 64-year-old Harkin, by...