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...current dichotomy has appeared before. Howard Dean and Bill Bradley each positioned himself as a straight-shooting alternative to establishment candidates like John Kerry, Dick Gephardt, and Al Gore in the 2000 and 2004 primaries, and were unceremoniously set aside by the voters for their trouble. The honesty strategy never seems to be a winning...
Some candidates choose the latter and embark on a whirlwind tour of the policy world, weighing in on just about every issue and offering specific, programmatic details. It's what John Kerry did in 2004, John McCain and Al Gore did in 2000, and Dick Gephardt did in 1988 - to just name a few. It's not a coincidence that all these candidates were legislators, and none of them...
...much sniping there might be about previous votes and statements. This reduces the chances of that issue fundamentally changing the dynamics of the race. This isn't 1972, with George McGovern battling Scoop Jackson and Ed Muskie caught between, or 2004, with Howard Dean challenging the field and Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman losing ground as war supporters...
...Joseph Lieberman 27 Richard Gephardt 14 John Edwards 11 John Kerry 10 Al Sharpton 7 Howard Dean 3 Don't know...
...Looking back at the last open G.O.P. race, over a year and half out from Election Day, the results are less shocking than the prospect of a Lieberman-Gephardt ticket, but they do tend to support the hypothesis that early polls aren't so much even popularity contests as trivia quizzes (The question being, "Have you ever heard of this person before...