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...news for him. In a TIME/CNN survey conducted last week, 61% of Democrats said they would like to see Gore run for President in 2004, so at the moment, the nomination is his to lose. Against the six most likely challengers (Joe Lieberman, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, Dick Gephardt, John Edwards and Howard Dean), Gore is favored by a whopping 53% of Democrats. (No one else gets more than 10%.) If Hillary Rodham Clinton's name is included, it becomes a contest, though Gore would outpoint her 36% to 26%. Barring some slip in the early 2004 tests...
...House, the resignation of minority leader Richard Gephardt set off a fight for the soul of the party. His probable replacement, Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, is an unapologetic member of the party's liberal wing--most recently she led the fight against the President's drive for congressional authorization to strike Iraq--and a scion of a minor Democratic dynasty: her father served in Congress and as mayor of Baltimore, a job her brother also held. (Her daughter Alexandra became friendly with Bush while making Journeys with George, a documentary about his presidential campaign.) The apparent anointment of Pelosi...
...Gore is best positioned for a postelection bounce, Gephardt and Daschle appear the most bloodied. The day after the election, when reality set in, Daschle conceded he had to carry the blame for Democratic losses in the Senate. "I can't shrug it," he said. "I can't shirk it." Sources say he will probably abandon a presidential run and focus on being Senate minority leader. As House minority leader, Gephardt spent most of the past decade trying to make up the 52-seat loss to Republicans suffered in 1994. "I've been consumed," he told TIME...
...presumptive election this week of liberal San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to the House minority-leader post vacated by Dick Gephardt indicates that for now the party will lean left. But for some, ideology is less important than unity. "Democrats have to go forward with a sharp message," Massachusetts Senator John Kerry told TIME. "It's not a question of moving left or right. People want you to look them in the eye and tell them what...
...White House. Money will be hard to come by between the crucial primaries in early 2004 and the July convention. "You can't afford to squander much on an internecine battle," says John Merrigan, chairman of the Democratic Business Council during the Clinton years. "People like Kerry and Gephardt, they get it. They'll still be competitive, but they'll be positive. If they aren't and they waste cash early, Bush and Rove will do to Democrats what Clinton did to Dole in '96." Or it could be 2002 redux. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper, Viveca Novak, Douglas Waller...