On November 2, 2004, voters will be casting their ballots for a presidential candidate. The highly possible candidate for president this year is Senator John F. Kerry. His support has rapidly grown throughout the United States since he won the Iowa caucuses January 19. Mr. Kerry began by seeking his first victories in the South, which his aides said would establish him as a national candidate. As the far-away front-runner in the Democratic race, he has won 10 of 12 primaries and caucuses to date.
The chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party, Randall A. Button, said that General Clark (from Arkansas), and Mr. Edwards (from North Carolina) should quit if they could not beat Mr. Kerry on their home turf. "They are both Southerners that have a message that resonates with Southerners," Mr. Button said. If they lose, he said, "it's gotten down to this: Let's move ahead to our objective, and our objective is unseating George W. Bush." A senior national Democratic Party official made the same argument, saying that General Clark and Mr. Edwards would have difficulty raising money to push on should they lose to Mr. Kerry in the South. "The voters will have spoken: Let's get on
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Several national Democratic leaders said that should General Clark lose again, he would probably come under pressure from the quarter of the party that encouraged his candidacy - the Bill Clinton camp - to clear the field for Mr. John Kerry is a decorated Vietnam War veteran who returned from the conflict to become one of the most outspoken opponents of the war. The other candidates feel the temptation to stay in the race is strong because Kerry has not been tested by scandal or misconduct so far. , who decided to vote for Kerry as he entered the voting booth, said ''Anybody but Bush, I'd vote for the devil. There must have been a time when he didn’t think this way. He was re-elected in 1990, 1996 and 2002. For instance, His vote against the first Gulf War was, he says, a sign of his support for the first Gulf War. Charles Edwards of Falls Church, Va. After earning three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star, there is no doubt he performed his duty faithfully, but once his service obligation was over he saw it as his next duty to speak out against the war and on behalf of veterans' interests.
After that, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then entered law school and spent the next decade working as a radio talk-show host and deputy prosecutor. Sadly, this attitude is widespread in America. And his vote against funding America's troops in Iraq is a sign of his support for America's men and women in uniform.
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