This is 2008's Primary Pre-Season

[Catchawave]

So, yes we should be able to talk about it. So to you naysayers...shoo, and keep your anti-discussion sniggies to yourself, that's just my opinion, of course.

From the 2004 Campaign:

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/cands/demmain.html

Overview
"Throughout the pre-campaign period in 2001-02, prominent Democratic presidential hopefuls were out in key states, establishing contacts, cultivating potential supporters, developing messages, and helping to raise money for Democratic candidates and state parties. Following former Vice President Gore's announcement of his decision not to run on December 15, 2002 the Democratic field began to crystallize. On September 17, 2003, after considerable hesitation, Gen. Wesley Clark became last Democratic candidate to enter ther race, bringing the field to its peak at ten. Sen. Bob Graham was the first major candidate to pull out of the race on October 6, 2003.
However, the big story throughout much of 2003 was the campaign of Gov. Howard Dean, which raised record amounts of money for a Democrat, generated considerable buzz, and appeared to place Dean on a solid path to the nomination. January 2004 produced an entirely different race. Dean fell short of expectations in the first-in-the-nation Iowa precinct caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. Sen. John Kerry, seen as the most electable candidate by Democrats wanting to defeat President Bush, gained huge momentum from Iowa and New Hampshire. On March 3 Kerry's strongest remaining challenger, Sen. John Edwards, withdrew after failing to win any of the ten Super Tuesday contests."

So then, 2005-06 is our pre-campaign season for prominent Democratic presidential hopefuls. Right?

Currently:

The Democrats

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eaction/2008/dems08.html


The Republicans

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eaction/2008/reps08.html

[Clark2008]

1. Kind of skimpy on info about Clark

He's done a hell of a lot more than that one sniggly paragraph.

Geesch. I hate the media.

[Catchawave]

2. The source was GWU

:shrug:

[Clark2008]

4. What is that? George Washington University?

Looks like a beacon of academia would do better research.

[Catchawave]

5. Here ya go....

contact GWU if this isn't complete then?

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/clark.html

[Catchawave]

3. Edwards lookin' good...note:

Sen. John Edwards (NC): One America Committee, Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity ... P2004 page
(Legislation: 108th, 107th, 106th)
PAC finances (1)
Consultant: Nick Baldick. Political Director: David Medina
>Since the campaign Sen. Edwards has made fighting poverty the overarching theme of his efforts.
>Sen. Edwards has not neglected the foreign policy arena. In late May 2005 he visited London, delivering a speech "Towards a New Partnership: America, Europe and the New World" at the London School of Economics on May 25 and meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Edwards is co-chairing, with former congressman and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, the Council on Foreign Relations' Independent Task Force on Russian-American Relations, which held its first meeting on May 31, 2005 and is scheduled to release a report in Fall 2005.
>Sen. Edwards is working on a book about people's childhood homes, tentatively titled Blueprints: The Architecture of Our Lives, with publication targeted for Fall 2006.
>Excluding Sen. Kerry's thank you visits to New Hampshire and Iowa in December 2004, former Sen. Edwards was the first Democratic prospect to venture into these key early states, visiting New Hampshire on February 5, 2005 and Iowa on March 31-April 1, 2005.

Director of the new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC School of Law (announced Feb. 2005) >. Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004; sought the Democratic 2004 presidential nomination. Elected to the U.S. Senate in Nov. 1998; retired in 2004. Successful trial lawyer. J.D. from University of North Carolina School of Law (Chapel Hill), 1977 and undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University, 1974. Born June 10, 1953 in Seneca, SC.

[Catchawave]

6. Web Dems :)

Not sure how current this is:

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eaction/2008/web2008/wdems08.html

[Adelante]

7. Kerry and Biden have campaign sites already?

I didn't realize that, somehow.

[Catchawave]

8. Yes, it's 2008's pre-season....

in politico-speak that is. I think once a candidate has a draft, exploratory, or PAC committee, they're considered 2008 Candidates to the MSM, anyhow.

In reviewing the 2004 election, most of those candidates started in 2001-2002.

[LittleClarkie]

9. SHOULD you be able to discuss it? Yes. Without the sniggles? No.

As the snigglers have just as many rights as you do to express themselves.

Talk all you want. But it won't be a popular topic among some of us.

2006!

[Catchawave]

10. Just trying to support those who want to discuss

*everything* political in GD-P, that's all. 2008 is a very important year for Dems too, those candidates throwing their hat in the ring should be fair game here, as it is with MSM.

As for me, I watch every one of them very closely for 2005, 2006, 2007 and how they affect the outcomes in local and state elections too.

I'm knee deep in a 2005 (VA) Governer's campaign now, and watching the GOP throwing Rovian Swift Boat money at the idiot (R) Kilgore.

The Virginia state forum should keep you updated :pals: