I’m not up on my politics (rarely am), but I believe Dubya will be running for office again come the next election. In which case, who’s going to be the likely Democratic opponent?
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There are currently a whole slew of Democrats who have announced Presidential ambitions. By the time the primaries roll around that number will probably decrease to two or three.
Right now the ones who have announced intentions to seek the Democractic nomination are:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-CT (ran as VP candidate for Gore in 2000)
Former Sen. Carol Mosely Brown, D-IL
Former Gov. Howard Dean, D-VT
Sen. John Edwards, D-NC (not the TV psychic! 
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Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-MO (current House majority leader)
Sen. Bob Graham, D-FL
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-OH
Rev. Al Sharpton
Of these, the only likely ones to be in the primary are Lieberman, Dean, Edwards and Gephardt.
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Thanks for the info. My money’s on Lieberman.
The House Majority Leader is Dick Armey, who is a Republican and from Texas.
The House Minority Leader is Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California.
Gephardt stepped down from the leadership to run for president.
I didn’t see any mention of Sen. John Kerry, who also wants to run against President Bush . . . unless Kerry very, very recently changed his mind.
There’s also Senator John Kerry of Massachussetts. Kinda hard to ignore him, the dude’s 6’4".
I should have said that the House Majority leader is Tom DeLay of Texas. He replaced Armey for this Congress.
Righto, my bad. Should have been “former House majority leader.” 
And I forgot Kerry too :smack:
Serves me right for being a libertarian.
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Actually, most of the people I talk to know about Lieberman, Kerry, Sharpton, and Howard Dean, but very vaguely. The situation right now reminds me of that old Bloom County cartoon wherein Opus is starting to poll the electorate in 1986 or so for him and Bill the Cat to run in '88. He rings a doorbell and asks the matron who answers, “Madam, which of these candidates would you be interested in seeing on the ballot in 1988?” and before he can finish his sentence the woman screams, curlers flying, while her undershirt-wearing husband fetches a broom with which she beats poor Opus around the head and drives him away from the stoop.
The penguin goes back to the sidewalk and says simply to Milo, “I think it’s too early”.
Ayup.
But if you want my half-assed opinion, Kucinich and Dean will say one unforgiveable-by-Joe-Sixpack-thing each and be forced out, Moseley-Braun will get her issues brought up in the first debate and then gracefully drop out, nobody will be able to tell Edwards and Graham, the Southern Senators, apart and they’ll cancel each other out (not before an amusing interlude with some rube asking Edwards if he can talk with his late mother), Lieberman will stand in front of a beige wall and fade away into it unnoticed, Sharpton will be demolished by a tough interviewer who’ll call out his lies to his face for once, Gephardt will be given up on because people feel they’ve already voted for him in every primary since 1932, and Kerry will take it by default, with the ghost of Mike Dukakis (who, like him, is charming and sharp and witty in person, I’ve seen them both, but comes across as stiff on the tube) hovering over him.
Wait until next spring and things’ll shake out, and I and everybody else will be able to give fully assed opinions. 