2008 : THE RACE BEGINS!
2008: The race begins.
By Richard Allen Greene BBC News, Washington.
In US politics, there's usually an incumbent running for the White House - if not the president himself (and so far it has always been a "himself"), then his vice-president.
Mr Bush will have to leave the White House when his term ends. But with George W Bush constitutionally limited to two terms and Vice-President Dick Cheney ruled out on health grounds, the race for the White House is wide open for the first time since 1928. And the race is so expensive and demanding that, though Election Day 2008 is more than two years away, candidates already need to be making their plans and hiring their teams. Here are the people presently considered the most capable of making a serious run.
Mr Bush will have to leave the White House when his term ends. But with George W Bush constitutionally limited to two terms and Vice-President Dick Cheney ruled out on health grounds, the race for the White House is wide open for the first time since 1928. And the race is so expensive and demanding that, though Election Day 2008 is more than two years away, candidates already need to be making their plans and hiring their teams. Here are the people presently considered the most capable of making a serious run.
DEMOCRATS
Evan Bayh
Joe Biden
Wesley Clark
Hillary Clinton
John Edwards
Russ Feingold
Al Gore
John Kerry
Bill Richardson
Tom Vilsack
Mark Warner
REPUBLICANS
George Allen
Jeb Bush
Bill Frist
Newt Gingrich
Rudolph Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
John McCain
Condoleezza Rice
Mitt Romney
posted by jackaranda at 1:10 pm
1 Comments:
There are a few people that were left off of that list by the BBC writer, including Chuck Hagel, Christopher Dodd, George Pataki, and a few others.
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