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The North Carolina senator is more than just an optimist with great hair -- in fact, he might be exactly what Democrats need in November. But can the party's most personable candidate reach enough voters before it's too late?
By Peter Dizikes
January 31, 2004
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Howard Dean goes after the Massachusetts senator, but a South Carolina debate is more coronation than confrontation.
By Tim Grieve
January 30, 2004
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The $40 million war chest is gone -- and so is campaign manager Joe Trippi. What happened?
By Josh Benson
January 29, 2004
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Meanwhile, Dean spins second as a moral victory -- but will he ever come in first? -- Edwards' backers say his fourth-place finish beats Clark's third, and Lieberman vows to fight on.
By Josh Benson
January 28, 2004
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Dissecting the Dems: John Kerry's "floppo karaoke" may be no match for John Edwards, the "happy populist." Plus: Bush's new "compassionate counter-proliferation," and martyring Mel Gibson.
By Mark Follman
January 28, 2004
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The Democratic front-runner can maintain his post-New Hampshire momentum, but only if he avoids these four risks, temptations and deficits of campaign style.
By Joe Conason
January 28, 2004
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At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, foot soldiers of the right rail against the big-government, free-spending ways of the White House.
By Michelle Goldberg
January 27, 2004
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With the exception of front-runner John Kerry, the Democratic contenders believe that even a third- or fourth-place finish can be a springboard to the big prize.
By Josh Benson
January 26, 2004
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The stunning results of Monday's Iowa caucuses will reorder the Democratic presidential contest. The biggest question: Can Howard Dean recover?
By Josh Benson
January 20, 2004
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The candidates have blitzed through towns and cornfields and spent millions on ads. But in the final hours before Monday night's caucus, Democrats here remain stubbornly undecided.
By Josh Benson
January 19, 2004
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Campaign troops are swarming the frosty countryside and attack ads fill the air. With the Iowa caucus just hours away, it's life-and-death time for Democrats.
By Josh Benson
January 17, 2004
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Bush's tax cuts for the rich have to go, Democrats agreed at Thursday's debate. But when the Vermont doctor took some barbs, he flashed his famous temper.
By Eric Boehlert
September 26, 2003
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The former Vermont governor is the front-runner, but some Democratic insiders wonder if the retired general has a better chance of beating Bush.
By Eric Boehlert
September 17, 2003
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As John Edwards kicks off his presidential campaign, some wonder if it's over before it began.
By Alexander Bolton
September 17, 2003
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Al Franken talks about his big victory over the Fox News bullies, why Bush can be thrown out in 2004, and comedy as a political weapon.
By Laura McClure
August 27, 2003
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Deans, Greens and liberals say the party needs to scream the anti-Bush truth at the American people. New-Democratic centrists say Americans just aren't that left-leaning. The schism is wide, and it's going to get wider.
By Michelle Goldberg
July 12, 2003
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As a social liberal and fiscal moderate, he's lured students, professionals and the antiwar left. But he's more George McGovern than Bill Clinton.
By John B. Judis
July 11, 2003
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The controversial political leader and Democratic presidential candidate delivers a pointed warning: If you attack me, you risk being sued.
By Jake Tapper
June 20, 2003
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After a series of compromises and miscalculations, the Democrats find themselves with no influence at all in the war debate.
By Eric Boehlert
January 31, 2003
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The 2004 hopeful tells Salon why he thinks he should be president -- and how George W. Bush is "the opposite of me."
By Jake Tapper
January 14, 2003
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Resistance from McCain, Snowe, Chafee and others could spell trouble for the president's radical proposal.
By Anthony York
January 9, 2003
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On "Saturday Night Live," Gore finally seems human. Sunday on "60 Minutes" he proves it, and pulls out of the 2004 race.
By Kerry Lauerman
December 16, 2002
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Director Mueller mostly won over Congress this week. But in mapping the missed signals before the terror attacks, most roads lead to counterterror chief Frasca -- and at least one senator is miffed.
By Anthony York
June 8, 2002
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Congressional advocates of competing patients rights bills stage rival Capitol Hill press events as the health war heats up.
By Jake Tapper
June 20, 2001
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How long will they keep jumping through Ringmaster George's hoops?
By Jake Tapper
February 22, 2001