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Which one is going to be Americas next president

The 2008 Presidential campaign is heating up and voters are beginning to , if they had not already , become acquainted with the various candidates . From the mood of the country , coupled with the various polls which report in unison , their results , it seems likely that a Democrat will become the next president of the United States . The reason for this has more to do with what the Republicans have failed to do , than what the Democrats can do . The war in Iraq hurt the Republicans in the last midterm election and many believe that

the same will be repeated next November . As a result of these findings , three Democratic candidates will be featured . They are Chris Dodd , Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton The latter two are fighting against each other to become the party 's presidential candidate in 2008 and the former , Chris Dodd is fighting to be recognized . In the November 15 , 2007 Democratic debate , Dodd spoke the third longest , trailing behind both Obama and Clinton . Unless there is an upset , it seems that the party faithful will have to choose between Obama and Clinton as their nominee . However , one of the aspects which keep the interest of the nation for more than a year , is the predictability of politics and that the nomination is still up for grabs

Chris Dobb is a five time United States Senator from Connecticut . His father was one of the lead prosecutors during the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 . The Dodd family has been one of class and privilege in the state of Connecticut for some time . However , this level of financial separation from the middle and lower classes of his state , has not been equated to a level of discontent between Dodd and the people that he represents . What has and will continue to serve as one of the major impediments for Dodd as he attempts to claim the Democratic nomination is his lack of notoriety outside of Connecticut . Chris Dodd follows in all of the national polls as well as the state polls in Iowa and South Carolina which will be the first two state primaries and are scheduled to be held early next year . A Dodd nomination is a long shot

Barack Obama is another presidential candidate who is trailing in the polls . Despite the fact that he has been endorsed by Oprah Winfrey perhaps the most powerful woman in America Obama will have to gain a lot of ground on his chief rival , Hillary Clinton is he hopes to gain his party 's nomination . Obama trails Clinton by more than twelve percentage points in both the Iowa and South Carolina races . However recent flip flops by Clinton , most recently regarding New York Governor Eliot Spitzer 's plan to give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants in which Clinton expressed both her support and disagreement with the plan seemingly at the same time , people are labeling Clinton as one who panders to popular opinion instead of possessing hard fought convictions

Obama represents all...

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