Race for the White House Will Be About America's Place in Our World
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WHEN Hercules slew his wife and children the 12 tasks he had to execute as penance included killing a 100-headed water snake, stealing the girdle of the queen of the Amazons and cleansing the Augean stables. Yet even the son of Zeus might have baulked at taking on the challenge which begins in earnest in Iowa on Monday: the race for the White House.
Although this year's contest could be said to have begun almost as soon as the 2000 election ended (such is the scale of the fund- raising and organisational task), what happens in Iowa and thereafter in New Hampshire, Idaho, Indiana and the rest of the primaries, represents, for the eight Democratic hopefuls, the bend before the home straight. At stake for them is the chance to take on George W Bush in the presidential election on November 2. For Mr Bush, running unopposed within his party, victory would allow him to achieve the second term that eluded his father, and secure a clear mandate after the messy contest of 2000. There is much more at stake in a US presidential election, however, than the dreams of any individual. When the most powerful job at the head of the world's only superpower becomes vacant, there are few citizens around the globe who will not in some way be affected by the result.See the full content of this document
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Race for the White House Will Be About America's Place in Our World
If the pollsters are correct (always a risky assumption to make at this stage of the contest), it looks like Howard Dean will take on Mr Bush in the autumn. Mr Dean is poles apart from Mr Bush on many issues. Describing h...
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