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Fashionista
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The 2008 Presidential Field
The 2008 presidential race is expected to be the first in decades that won't include a sitting president or vice president in the field of candidates vying for the White House. A large group of contenders are already putting together campaign operations and visiting the early primary states.
Democratic Candidates
Joe Biden
Current Job/Position: Senator from Delaware
Hometown: New Castle, Del.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/31/07
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Current Job/Position: Senator from New York
Hometown: Park Ridge, Ill.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/22/07
Chris Dodd
Current Job/Position: Senator from Connecticut
Hometown: East Haddam, Conn.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/11/07
John Edwards
Current Job/Position: Director for Center on Poverty; Trial Lawyer
Hometown: Robbins, N.C.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/3/07
Al Gore
Current Job/Position: President of television channel Current
Hometown: Carthage, Tenn.
Status: Unofficial
Mike Gravel
Current Job/Position: Lecturer
Hometown: Springfield, Mass.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 4/14/06
Dennis Kucinich
Current Job/Position: Representative from Ohio
Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio
Status: Statement of Candidacy 12/29/06
Barack Obama
Current Job/Position: Senator from Illinois
Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia; Honolulu, Hawaii
Status: Statement of Candidacy 2/12/07
Bill Richardson
Current Job/Position: Governor of New Mexico
Hometown: Pasadena, Calif.; Mexico City, Mexico
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/22/07
Republican Candidates
Sam Brownback
Current Job/Position: Senator from Kansas
Hometown: Parker, Kan.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/22/07
Jim Gilmore
Current Job/Position: Adviser
Hometown: Richmond, Va.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/9/07
Newt Gingrich
Current Job/Position: Chair, the Gingrich Group
Hometown: Columbus, Ga.
Status: Unofficial
Rudy Giuliani
Current Job/Position: Lawyer
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 2/5/07
Chuck Hagel
Current Job/Position: Senator from Nebraska
Hometown: Columbus, Neb.
Status: Unknown
Mike Huckabee
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Hope, Ark.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/29/07
Duncan Hunter
Current Job/Position: Representative from California
Hometown: Alpine, Calif.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/25/07
John McCain
Current Job/Position: Senator from Arizona
Hometown: Alexandria, Va.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 11/16/06
George Pataki
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Peekskill, N.Y.
Status: Unofficial
Ron Paul
Current Job/Position: Representative from Texas
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pa.
Status: Exploratory Cmte. 1/7/07
Mitt Romney
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/3/07
Tom Tancredo
Current Job/Position: Representative from Colorado
Hometown: Broomfield, Colo.
Status: Exploratory Cmte. 1/22/07
Tommy Thompson
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Elroy, Wis.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/11/07
Fred Thompson
Current Job/Position: Actor
Hometown: Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
Status: Unofficial
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/
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I vote for Ron Paul.
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| dithers
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I predict Clinton, Obama and maybe Richardson will be the only serious contenders for the Dems.
It's still kind of a crap shoot with the GOP. Since so much focus has been on Hillary vs. Obama we haven't really had a good fleshing out of some of the Republicans yet.
I predict Guiliani, Romney and McCain as the only serious contenders. But Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson might become viable candidates once we start to see more of them. I think McCain is falling fast. I don't think Republicans care for him as much as the MSM and there is no way they'd sink Hillary or Obama to keep McCain afloat. You can already see them turning on him somewhat.
Tommy Thompson was Governor of Wisconsin when I lived there and even back then there was talk of his running for President one day. He was a good governor but I think his stint at Health and Human Services killed any chance he might have had.
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Re: The 2008 Presidential Field
| Fashionista wrote: | The 2008 presidential race is expected to be the first in decades that won't include a sitting president or vice president in the field of candidates vying for the White House. A large group of contenders are already putting together campaign operations and visiting the early primary states.
Democratic Candidates
Joe Biden
Current Job/Position: Senator from Delaware
Hometown: New Castle, Del.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/31/07
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Current Job/Position: Senator from New York
Hometown: Park Ridge, Ill.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/22/07
Chris Dodd
Current Job/Position: Senator from Connecticut
Hometown: East Haddam, Conn.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/11/07
John Edwards
Current Job/Position: Director for Center on Poverty; Trial Lawyer
Hometown: Robbins, N.C.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/3/07
Al Gore
Current Job/Position: President of television channel Current
Hometown: Carthage, Tenn.
Status: Unofficial
Mike Gravel
Current Job/Position: Lecturer
Hometown: Springfield, Mass.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 4/14/06
Dennis Kucinich
Current Job/Position: Representative from Ohio
Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio
Status: Statement of Candidacy 12/29/06
Barack Obama
Current Job/Position: Senator from Illinois
Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia; Honolulu, Hawaii
Status: Statement of Candidacy 2/12/07
Bill Richardson
Current Job/Position: Governor of New Mexico
Hometown: Pasadena, Calif.; Mexico City, Mexico
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/22/07
Republican Candidates
Sam Brownback
Current Job/Position: Senator from Kansas
Hometown: Parker, Kan.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/22/07
Jim Gilmore
Current Job/Position: Adviser
Hometown: Richmond, Va.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/9/07
Newt Gingrich
Current Job/Position: Chair, the Gingrich Group
Hometown: Columbus, Ga.
Status: Unofficial
Rudy Giuliani
Current Job/Position: Lawyer
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 2/5/07
Chuck Hagel
Current Job/Position: Senator from Nebraska
Hometown: Columbus, Neb.
Status: Unknown
Mike Huckabee
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Hope, Ark.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/29/07
Duncan Hunter
Current Job/Position: Representative from California
Hometown: Alpine, Calif.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/25/07
John McCain
Current Job/Position: Senator from Arizona
Hometown: Alexandria, Va.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 11/16/06
George Pataki
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Peekskill, N.Y.
Status: Unofficial
Ron Paul
Current Job/Position: Representative from Texas
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pa.
Status: Exploratory Cmte. 1/7/07
Mitt Romney
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/3/07
Tom Tancredo
Current Job/Position: Representative from Colorado
Hometown: Broomfield, Colo.
Status: Exploratory Cmte. 1/22/07
Tommy Thompson
Current Job/Position: Candidate
Hometown: Elroy, Wis.
Status: Statement of Candidacy 1/11/07
Fred Thompson
Current Job/Position: Actor
Hometown: Lawrenceburg, Tenn.
Status: Unofficial
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008-presidential-candidates/
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Hopefuls Weigh Risks Of Serious Interviews
For Candidates At Top Of The Polls, A Growing Disincentive To Talk To Journalists
Sept. 21, 2007
(CBS) This story was written by CBSNews.com political reporter Brian Montopoli.
It was hard to miss Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on TV this week. The former first lady appeared on all three network morning shows, along with the cable networks, as part of the rollout for her newly-unveiled health-care plan. And early word is she plans to appear on all five public affairs shows this Sunday morning.
Despite her frontrunner status, however, Clinton has not spent nearly as much of her time on TV appearances as some of her rivals. In fact, the candidates topping most polls have some of the least TV face time, according to tracking done by The Hotline, a daily political digest in Washington. The publication has been keeping tabs on how often each candidate has appeared on television, other than in debates and advertising, since Labor Day 2005. Clinton shows up on the bottom half of their list -- just below Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani.
It is the candidates lagging behind them who are popping up far more often. Sens. John McCain and Joe Biden, with a whopping 58 hours on TV between them through the end of August, top the Hotline list. (Clinton and Giuliani combine for just 14 hours in the same timeframe.) A CBS News poll out Tuesday, meanwhile, found that three-quarters of those surveyed don't have an opinion of Biden, despite his relative television ubiquity and the fact that he has been in Congress since 1972.
Even in an age when politicians can announce their candidacies on Web sites, television plays an important role in a presidential campaign. But the data above suggest that airtime -- at least the kind you're not paying for -- may not carry the kind of power it once did. Forums like the Sunday morning talk shows give candidates the opportunity to earn exposure and credibility, but they also come with risks -- a bad performance or an instantly-YouTubed flub can do significant harm to a candidate. And a daytime appearance on a cable network may pass largely unnoticed by the voting public.
There are a number of other options available to candidates looking to communicate their message. When Fred Thompson decided to finally declare his candidacy, he didn't go to "Face The Nation," "Meet The Press," or one of the nightly newscasts. Instead, he headed for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," much as Arnold Schwarzenegger did when he wanted to announce his California gubernatorial run in 2003. It was, the New York Times noted, "a pleasant, risk-free forum, safe from potential negativity and tough questioning from reporters, a debate moderator or the public."
Some candidates need airtime more than others. Clinton, Giuliani, Thompson and Barack Obama have become celebrities, and they get plenty of media attention without having to submit to interviews. (In London this week, Giuliani even claimed to have be "one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.") The Mike Huckabees and Mike Gravels of the world, meanwhile, need all the exposure they can get.
One way to guarantee that exposure is to pay for it. "You have 30 seconds where you get to say your talking points how you want to say them," notes Joel Rivlin, deputy director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project at the University of Wisconsin. "You're not being followed by someone who opposes you and wants to counter your argument."
Most viewers understand that a campaign ad isn't the same thing as an interview, of course. But advertisements allow campaigns to maintain control of their message, and the evidence suggests that they remain an effective form of communication. Romney, who began advertising early and often in both Iowa and New Hampshire, currently leads in most polls in those crucial early states. In national polls, he is not doing nearly so well.
The frontloading of the primary schedule and the fact that candidates are raising more money than ever before - money they can spend on ads - has only magnified this effect, argues veteran Democratic strategist Steve Jarding.
"Once you've reached the level where you can be competitive in this highly condensed system, it breeds caution," he says. "If I were advising a presidential candidate, particularly Hillary or Obama, I might say, 'Don't do an interview with CBS News. You might screw up, and then the money could go right down the toilet.' "
And Jarding believes that's not something Americans should be happy about.
"It's like we're in Atlantic City and these guys are walking down the aisle in swimsuits," he says. "There is less and less incentive for them to say anything. It's awful. We're getting to the point where the only reason for them to be talking about the issues is if they're getting their buts kicked."
But there are still benefits to submitting to serious interviews, according to Alex S. Jones, Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
"You still want to be on serious shows because the influentials are the ones who watch them," says Jones. "That's where the activists and the people really interested in politics and elections are -- the people who are going to be important for fundraising, who are going to go to the Internet and share their opinions on blogs. In that sense they are still the biggest game in town."
But Jarding says that effect only goes so far.
"You might do one show to prove that you can handle it," he says. "But there is a disincentive to take risks if you don't have to."
By Brian Montopoli
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hilary is showing her true colours now that she is flip flopping on some of the important issues. her health plan is going to be a government plan. i feel she is letting her supporters down terribly espacially on the war and her lack of respect for the troops. bush made mistakes buy he is the pres and america would have won the war long ago if they all came together and supported each other. its the media that has turned the people against each other and divided ths country
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| pax
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| JoJoe wrote: | | hilary is showing her true colours now that she is flip flopping on some of the important issues. her health plan is going to be a government plan. i feel she is letting her supporters down terribly espacially on the war and her lack of respect for the troops. bush made mistakes buy he is the pres and america would have won the war long ago if they all came together and supported each other. its the media that has turned the people against each other and divided ths country |
Mature people adjust their views to accomodate new information. That's not flip-flopping, it's leadership. Hillary Clinton has shown utmost respect for our troops, as her voting record attests. We haven't won the war because its premises are fundamentally flawed. Dissent is part of democracy. To what media are you referring? Most mainstream media has been blandly uncritical. A half trillion dollars, for what?
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| CancunMole
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The following is an interesting exercise.... You answer a few questions then click the "find your candidate button" and the program selects the candidate whose position on the issues is most like your own. Click the link below....
http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
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Thanks, CM. I tried it. It told me that Dennis Kucinuch should have my vote.
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Thanks CancunMole.
That's really interesting, helps you think about issues.
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Political News
Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail
By The Associated Press
From Associated Press
November 28, 2007 10:37 AM EST
IN THE HEADLINES
Rivals pore over Mike Huckabee's record as Arkansas governor ... While governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney tried to insulate himself from "soft on crime" criticism ... Some high-profile Massachusetts Republicans, backing Rudy Giuliani, to conduct "reality checks" of Romney's record.
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Foes examine Huckabee's Arkansas record
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Mike Huckabee's presidential rivals are pointing to chinks in his record as Arkansas' governor - from ethics complaints to tax increases to illegal immigration and his support for releasing a rapist who was later convicted of killing a Missouri woman.
The Republican presidential candidate has plenty to champion from his 10 1/2 years as governor - including school improvements and health insurance for the children of the working poor. But his record has rough edges.
Other campaigns for the GOP nomination, watching Huckabee's rise in polls in Iowa, are starting to mine his past for political fodder. Take ethics, for example.
"People are starting to contact us and they're saying we want everything on Mike Huckabee," says Graham Sloan, director of the state's Ethics Commission.
What they'll find is 436 pages of documents chronicling Huckabee's various tangles with a commission he's derided as a political tool of Democrats. It's a panel that has held proceedings 20 times on the former governor and lieutenant governor.
(WX104-1120071658, WX103-1125071617)
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Fact check: As governor, Romney sought to insulate himself from 'soft on crime' charge
BOSTON (AP) - As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney issued no pardons, limited lobbying by would-be judges and sought to create a judicial nominating process based solely on merit.
Despite his efforts, the Republican presidential hopeful finds himself enmeshed in just the kind of "law and order" controversy he had hoped to avoid. A judge he appointed in 2006 freed a convicted killer who is now charged with murdering a young couple.
Romney has defended his decision to appoint Kathe Tuttman to the Superior Court but is calling on her to step down, saying she showed poor judgment in freeing Daniel Tavares Jr.
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Giuliani Surrogates in Massachusetts Launch Romney 'Reality Check'
BOSTON (AP) - Some top Massachusetts Republicans aligned with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani plan to fan out across the country, criticizing the record of former Gov. Mitt Romney as he battles Giuliani for the GOP presidential nomination.
Former Gov. Paul Cellucci and former Treasurer Joe Malone, joined by other surrogates, were announcing "The Romney Reality" check during a news conference Wednesday outside the Statehouse where Romney served for four years.
The initial focus was on taxes and other economic issues, topics likely to be discussed by Romney and Giuliani during a debate Wednesday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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THE DEMOCRATS
Hillary Rodham Clinton discusses health care with Iowans at the Des Moines Area Community College.
Chris Dodd and Joe Biden address the Iowa Association of Counties in Des Moines.
Dennis Kucinich talks to students at a high school in Nashua, N.H.
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THE REPUBLICANS
CNN and YouTube host a debate for the Republican candidates in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Mike Huckabee holds a press conference in the morning with Rev. Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Va.
John McCain starts the day with a town hall meeting at Clemson University in South Carolina.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"People are starting to contact us and they're saying we want everything on Mike Huckabee." - Graham Sloan, director of the Arkansas state Ethics Commission.
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STAT OF THE DAY:
William Henry Harrison had the shortest tenure in office of any president - one month.
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Compiled by Joan Lowy.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail
By The Associated Press
From Associated Press
December 06, 2007 10:35 AM EST
IN THE HEADLINES
Romney confronts voter skepticism about his Mormon faith ... Clinton, Romney shift their campaign strategies.
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Romney: 'Moral convictions,' not faith, binds him to all Americans
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney, confronting voters' skepticism about his Mormon faith, declared Thursday that as president he would "serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause," and said calls for him to explain and justify his religious beliefs go against the profound wishes of the nation's founders.
At the same time, he decried those who would remove from public life "any acknowledgment of God," and he said that "during the holiday season, nativity scenes and menorahs should be welcome in our public places."
In a speech prepared for delivery less than a month before the first nomination primaries, Romney said he shares "moral convictions" with Americans of all faiths, though surveys suggest up to half of likely voters have qualms about electing the first Mormon president.
"There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines," Romney said. "To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution. No candidate should become the spokesman for his faith. For if he becomes president, he will need the prayers of the people of all faiths."
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Clinton and Romney shift course in White House race
WASHINGTON (AP) - For at least a year, Mitt Romney worked to keep his Mormon faith away from the center of his campaign for the White House. And for months, Hillary Rodham Clinton largely steered clear of criticizing her Democratic rivals.
No longer.
Now, locked in unpredictable, tight races in the leadoff Iowa caucuses, both the Democratic senator from New York and the Republican former governor of Massachusetts are shifting course. Clinton's decision to assail Sen. Barack Obama and Romney's scheduled speech on religious faith are seen by pros in both parties as signs that the status quo carried potential dangers.
"It was Napoleon who said, 'No plan has ever survived contact with the enemy,'" said Mark Mellman, a Democratic pollster who is not affiliated with any candidate in the 2008 race. "The truth is these campaigns are really for the first time coming into contact with the enemy. And so they've got to change plans."
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THE DEMOCRATS
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York campaigns in New Hampshire before holding a holiday reception in Washington.
John Edwards makes stops in South Carolina.
Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut holds town halls in Iowa.
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THE REPUBLICANS
Mitt Romney delivers a speech on his Mormon religion at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona talks to voters in New Hampshire.
Rudy Giuliani campaigns in Florida.
Mike Huckabee makes stops in North Carolina.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"When I place my hand on the Bible and take the oath of office, that oath becomes my highest promise to God. If I am fortunate to become your president, I will serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause, and no one interest. A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States." - Mitt Romney
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STAT OF THE DAY:
Democrat John F. Kennedy, the nation's first Roman Catholic president, defeated Republican Richard Nixon with 34,226,731 votes in 1960. Nixon garnered 34,108,157 votes.
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Compiled by Ann Sanner.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail
By The Associated Press
From Associated Press
December 12, 2007 12:30 PM EST
IN THE HEADLINES
Romney says 'attacking religion' going too far after Huckabee questions ... Edwards' anti-crime proposal to include more police officers, tools to fight methamphetamine abuse.
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Romney: Attacks on religion go too far
BOSTON (AP) - Republican Mitt Romney retorted to questions about his faith by rival Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, declaring that "attacking someone's religion is really going too far."
In an article to be published Sunday in The New York Times, Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"
Romney, vying to become the first Mormon elected president, declined to answer that question during an interview Wednesday, saying church leaders in Salt Lake City had already addressed the topic.
"But I think attacking someone's religion is really going too far. It's just not the American way, and I think people will reject that," Romney told NBC's "Today" show.
Huckabee has been surging in recent opinion polls, taking the GOP lead in Iowa and pressing closer to Rudy Giuliani in polling.
Huckabee maintains that his question in the interview was taken out of context.
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Edwards proposes anti-crime plan
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards unveiled an anti-crime initiative Wednesday that would increase the number of police patrols, combat methamphetamine production in rural areas and renew the ban on assault weapons.
The announcement of the proposals, scheduled for later Wednesday, is part of Edwards current bus tour through Iowa and was coupled with the endorsement of Iowa law enforcement officials, including nine county sheriffs.
The Edwards plan also would finance programs protecting women against domestic violence, help ex-offenders through literacy programs, drug treatment and startup jobs, and expand support for mental health and literacy programs for people in custody.
The campaign did not immediately provide a price tag for the proposals. Edwards has said in the past that he would pay for some of his priorities by rolling back President Bush's tax cuts on taxpayers who make more than $200,000 each year. He also has proposed increasing government revenues by raising the tax rate on capital gains to 28 percent for the wealthiest taxpayers.
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THE DEMOCRATS
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson discusses his jobs and education policy in Sioux City, Iowa. Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards also campaigns in the state.
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THE REPUBLICANS
The candidates participate in an afternoon debate in Iowa.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson and Arizona Sen. John McCain also have planned stops in the state.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I don't believe that the people of this country are going to choose a person based on their faith and what church they go to." - GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, responding to questions about his Mormon faith.
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STAT OF THE DAY:
Two-thirds of Americans say their lives are happy, though more Republicans than Democrats say so, 72 percent to 64 percent, according to an AP-Yahoo News survey.
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Compiled by Ann Sanner.
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