[2iron]

Excellent summary of the situation. With the economy receding as an issue, that leaves Iraq and terrorism. None of the Democrats who have foreign policy credibility can adequately appeal to their own left wing primary voters. Except possibly Gebhardt. He leads in the Iowa polling and should run better than Dean in the south. I see a two man race therefore, Dean and and Dick. Because of the loss of manufacturing jobs to China issue, Dick probably has some support in the midwest as well. I'm picking Gebhardt. He still loses big to Bush, however.

[steve8714]

Janus Gephardt needed monolithic union support to have a chance...he is not left enough for the SEIU, AFSCME, NEA, or AFGE. These incidentally are the unions that are growing while the traditional construction and industrial unions shrink.