Once again, E.J Dionne looks ahead. He's sees a big opening for John Edwards in particular - also Gephardt. This race is just beginning.
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Friday, August 1, 2003
To judge by many news accounts, the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is rapidly narrowing to two New Englanders: Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont.
Which makes this a propitious moment to suggest that Rep. Richard Gephardt and Sen. John Edwards are being written off too quickly. The reason: Foreign policy and Iraq have been the dominant issues for the past several months. If the argument moves homeward, Gephardt and Edwards will have an opening.
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But the incessant focus on Iraq has created a climate especially beneficial to Dean and Kerry -- and inhospitable to Sen. Joe Lieberman, the party's strongest supporter of the war.
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