An exuberant Kerry starts his N.H. charge

[Feanorcurufinwe]

The Massachusetts Democrat looks to build upon his Iowa victory as he labors to overcome front-runner Howard Dean.
BY SCOTT MacKAY, Providence Journal Staff Writer

An exhilerated John Kerry and a subdued Howard Dean raced from Iowa to New Hampshire yesterday for a make-or-break week of presidential primary campaigning that could put one of them on a path to the White House and puncture the other's 2004 presidential ambitions. Fresh from his resounding win in the Iowa caucuses, Kerry arrived to new poll numbers showing him closing on Dean here and to cheers in a chilly hangar at Manchester Airport at a 7 a.m. rally before 350 enthusiastic supporters. They chanted "Bush is scary, we want Kerry" as U2's "It's a Beautiful " blared from speakers.

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IF HISTORY is an accurate guide, one of the New Englanders -- probably Dean or Kerry -- will emerge victorious when the votes are tallied in New Hampshire Tuesday evening. "New Hampshire voters like New Englanders," says Garrison Nelson, a political science professor at the University of Vermont. Every serious New England presidential candidate since John F. Kennedy in 1960 -- with the exception of Sen. Kennedy in 1980, who lost to incumbent President Jimmy Carter -- has won in New Hampshire. The Iowa results usually do not have much influence on New Hampshire, but that may change this time because of Kerry's substantial caucus win. "Because he is a New Englander, I think Kerry can capitalize on Iowa," said Nelson. "The real loser in Iowa was Dean," added Nelson, a longtime observer of Dean who is often critical of the former Vermont governor's style. "Howard's personality didn't wear well, obviously."

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The Iowa results also highlight a trait Kerry observers in Massachusetts have long noted -- that he is a strong closer in close elections. Kerry faced an especially tough race in 1996 for his senate seat against then-Gov. William Weld. In a series of debates late in the campaign, Kerry better than held his own against the brainy and popular Weld. Both Kerry and Dean are pitching themselves as the best candidate to defeat Mr. Bush; Iowa voters bought Kerry's arguments in this regard but not Dean's.

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POST-IOWA conventional wisdom is that Dean's personality was too hot for television and the campaign. His brimming anger often made him look rattled, as if he never got beyond the anti-Iraq War policies and strident denounciations of Mr. Bush that got him noticed when few Democrats south of Brattleboro or west of Lake Champlain knew his name.

http://www.projo.com/extra/election/content/projo_20040121_nh21.210f86.html

[DennisReveni]

1. Why did kerry vote for national ID cards?

Stumbled across this.
http://www.rense.com/general48/kerryvoteslikelieberman.htm
Kerry Votes Like Lieberman,
Santorum And Even Ashcroft

Here are a couple of examples
"Senate Vote on Government Funding of Religious Institutions
S. 1956

Government Funding of Religious Institutions - Included in the welfare overhaul was a provision that could force state governments, under threat of lawsuits, to contract with religious institutions, including houses of worship, to provide taxpayer-funded social services, even if they are delivered in a proselytizing environment. This, too, was a recurring theme in the 104th Congress where opponents of religious liberty repeatedly sought to pass provisions to lower the wall of separation between church and state. In the Senate, the provisions were inserted into the welfare bill by a vote of 67 to 32. There was no separate vote on the provisions in the House.

The ACLU Urged a Vote For the Separation of Church and State
Kerry voted against ACLU and so did LIEberman, Santorum & Ashcroft..."

"Senate Vote on National ID Cards
S. 1664

National ID Card - One of the most pervasive themes of the 104th Congress has been proposals to establish a national identification system as a means of tracking undocumented workers, so-called deadbeat dads and to monitor health insurance information. Various database schemes have been included in bills as diverse as immigration, welfare reform and health insurance. Since these proposals have been buried in much larger legislation, it was often difficult to determine the position of members of Congress. In the House, however, an attempt to eliminate a national ID system from the immigration bill failed by a vote of 159 to 260. A similar attempt in the Senate failed by a vote of 46 to 54.

The ACLU Urged a Vote Against National ID Cards
Kerry voted FOR this... Even LIEberman, Ashcroft, Lott and Santorum were against this... "

"Senate Vote on Wiretapping

Wiretapping - Although the interception of innocent conversations in federal law enforcement wiretaps is already at record levels, Congress has been repeatedly asked to give the FBI even greater authority to wiretap. Proposals have ranged from providing $500 million to the nation's phone companies to finance a retrofit of their systems to make it easier for the FBI to wiretap to permitting law enforcement agencies to use more "roving" wiretaps (without specifying which phone is to be tapped), and more "emergency" wiretaps (without obtaining a prior court order).

The ACLU Urged a Vote Against Wiretapping
Kerry voted FOR Wiretapping with LIEberman and his other buddy Santorum... "

Those are only a few of the votes Kerry made.

[izzie]

2. Two things to think about.

The federal govt. already helps Catholic relief and such groups even if they do not make you read the Bible to get help, they are religious groups. We have to have state ID or Lic. and these all can be opened from all states and the IRA has a federal data on us. I may not go with it but that stuff but it is out there. Also some one like me who was married to a service man has been fingerprinted and had an ID card from the govt.