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...with fire fighters and a "listening session with seniors." (Lieberman has said he will not run if Gore does, but made it clear that he expects his former running mate to make up his mind by the end of the year.) The weekend before, House minority leader Dick Gephardt, who represents St. Louis, made his third visit to New Hampshire in less than a year, ostensibly to honor a Super Bowl bet he had made with his counterpart in the New Hampshire legislature. And not long before that, Vietnam veteran John Kerry brought Democrats in Concord, N.H., to their feet...
...vying for the chance to take on Bush and his 75% approval rating, it feels like the day after tomorrow. At least five states expect to schedule their primaries right behind the New Hampshire and Iowa contests, which means, "for practical purposes, you are running in a national primary," Gephardt says. "The old Jimmy Carter state-by-state routine is not going to happen again...
...Gephardt made time in New Hampshire to stump for John Kacavas, who was running for a spot on the state's executive council. Kacavas had other out-of-state supporters: Senators John Edwards, Lieberman and Kerry, as well as Vermont Governor Howard Dean. (Kacavas lost anyway.) Party activists, too, are making new friends. When Debra Crapo, vice chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, got home from a Gephardt event two weeks ago, she found a message on her answering machine from a political operative for Edwards, just checking in. Edwards had already written a note to Crapo's husband...
...reformers rallied again. Senator John McCain, his nose bandaged because of a recent skin-cancer surgery, camped out in an office on the House side of the Capitol--across the hall from DeLay's suite--and pleaded with Republican supporters not to break ranks. House minority leader Dick Gephardt, hobbled by a recent hernia operation, phoned more than 30 Democrats to stanch defections...
...threats from their party leaders and voted for the measure. Sponsored by Democrat Martin Meehan and Republican Christopher Shays, the bill would ban unlimited and unregulated "soft money" donations, $500 million of which were raised and spent in the 2000 election. "This changes the architecture of American politics," said Gephardt, bleary eyed and still aching from his operation on the day after the vote. "This bill will allow the people to be heard again...