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Kerry in 2008? Newsweek discusses the possibility of Kerry running for President next time:
He never quite came out and said it, but Kerry sounded very much like a man who was running for president again. He has a mailing list with 2.9 million names and an organization in every state. His moneymen have not backed away. By and large, Kerry has not been blamed for the defeat, at least not the way former vice president Al Gore was after the 2000 election. Some of Kerry’s followers are already plotting how Kerry can defeat Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses in 2008. The conventional wisdom, already congealing before Bush’s second Inaugural, pictures Kerry and Clinton as the early Democratic front runners.
I remember the same talk about Gore after the 2000 election. As late as 2002, a CNN poll found that “two-thirds of the public thinks Gore will be the likely Democratic nominee in 2004”.
The Newsweek article concludes:
As this reporter left his house in November, Kerry called out and followed him down the street. He wanted to show a letter from a schoolgirl that had been left on his stoop. The letter read, in part, “John Kerry, you’re the greatest!” Kerry looked into the reporter’s eye. “The pundits have never liked me,” he said. “Is it the way I look? The way I sound?” He seemed vulnerable for a moment, then caught himself, smiled and walked home to his empty house.
He’s still thinking the way to win an election is to make superficial changes in the way he looks and sounds, rather than in what he says. I doubt he’ll be a strong contender for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2008.
