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Post-Gore Democrats. (Comment).

American Prospect, The,  January, 2003  by Meyerson, Harold

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GORE IS GONE, AND THE RACE for the Democratic nomination in 2004 is so wide open, says one Democratic pollster, "The plausibility of why-not-me? candidacies has just exploded."

This isn't 1992, when Mario Cuomo's decision not to run failed to prompt any prominent national Democrats who'd been holding back to hop into the race. Running against Bush 43, apparently, is not the deterrent that running against Bush 41 once was. Gephardt, Lieberman, Kerry, Edwards, Dean--and perhaps Daschle, Dodd and such wild cards as Biden, Hart, Sharpton and Clark this is the Democrats' ...

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