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Was John Kerry's easy path to the nomination a curse in disguise? WOULD JOHN KERRY have been better off not winning the Democratic presidential nomination so easily and so quickly? It's not an entirely idle or silly question. And the reason is that Kerry has emerged from the primaries with his candidacy and his record largely unchallenged. He hasn't been seriously vetted by the press. His image is undefined. All the public knows is he's been winning primaries and once served in Vietnam. Now, President Bush's reelection campaign will have a shot at defining Kerry.Democratic national chairman Terry McAuliffe got...

Utah Democrats held a presidential primary election this past week. And while it is un-American to ever argue against an election, this primary comes about as close as one can to that disloyal stance. First, let me put the 2004 Utah Democratic primary in some perspective. According to information put out by the party, which had to organize and fund the primary itself because the GOP-dominated 2003 Legislature wouldn't pay for it, 35,191 people voted. Much was made in the media last week over that being a great turnout. I beg to differ. State election officials say there are just...

One thing the Bush campaign should understand: John F. Kerry is not going to repeat the mistakes of the Mondales and Dukakis’sPolls are now showing that John Kerry, the likely Democratic nominee for President, can defeat President Bush. Some of those polls show that Kerry's lead is now into double digits. Bush-Cheney campaign operatives tell supporters not to worry. Kerry is the fourth Democrat to run for the Presidency from Massachusetts since 1980, the other three being Ted Kennedy (who was defeated by Jimmy Carter in the primaries), Paul Tsongas (who lost out to Bill Clinton, despite winning in New...

ROANOKE — U.S. Sen. John Kerry today blamed the administration's tax cuts for snuffing the prosperity of the 1990s and said he would end the Bush presidency the same way Bill Clinton did to the elder Bush in 1992. "If you liked what Bill Clinton gave you in eight years, you'll love what John Kerry will give you in the first four," the front-running Democratic presidential candidate from Massachusetts told a crowd of about 500 outside a downtown firehouse. At the morning rally, Kerry criticized an upbeat economic report released by the White House that concluded America's economy is getting...