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I decided that I would go see whichever Dem candidates came to town and held public meetings.
Dennis Kucinich came to St. Paul in the middle of August 2003. I knew almost nothing about him except that he was in the Progressive Caucus, so I had no preconceptions.
I was literally in tears at the end of his speech. I never thought I would live long enough to hear a Democratic candidate with vision and ideals and an analysis of the country's problems that matched my own. Two weeks later, I went to a meeting of supporters, and I worked on the campaign whenever my highly variable workload was low.
I didn't hear any other candidates till Kerry came to the University of Minnesota in June 2004. The reason is that they all seemed to hold nothing but closed meetings for contributors.
Judging from their media presences, I never warmed to Howard Dean, I thought Lieberman was to the right of Richard Nixon, Gephardt was deadly dull, Kerry was probably the most qualified, and Edwards was the most personable.
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