Dean expedites courting of black vote
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The Democratic Party can no longer sit back and wait until three weeks before an election to ask minorities for their vote, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Friday.
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The US Democratic Party is expected to elect former presidential contender Howard Dean as its new chairman.
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Howard Dean, with an eye on leading the Democratic Party in the wake of widespread election losses, said Wednesday that Democrats must campaign on their convictions and not give into the temptation to behave like Republicans.
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Sen. John Edwards asked black voters to help Democrat John Kerry in "this march toward justice and equality" and urged Floridians to vote early as he continued a three-day tour of their state Sunday.
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SELMA, Alabama  - Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help pick the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
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Former presidential candidate Howard Dean, once the early front-runner for the Democratic nomination whose candidacy stumbled, has decided to seek the party's chairmanship, several Democrats said Tuesday.
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Jockeying for the top job at the Democratic Party is under way after Election Day losses, with former presidential hopeful Howard Dean indicating an interest in the post while other names are circulating. Republicans may reward a GOP operative who helped engineer President Bush's re-election.
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Former Vermont governor Howard Dean smiles as he is introduced to a student audience at George Washington University, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004.
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In dual church visits Sunday, Sen. John Kerry stoked the black vote in advance of Election Day, evoking the civil rights movement and declaring, &quot;We have an unfinished march in this nation, we have an unfinished dream.
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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and  the other Democratic presidential contenders battled for black  support on Thursday with attacks on the ravages of racism and  promising to lift up the poor.
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The struggles of the nation's blacks &#151; a loyal Democratic voting bloc &#151; topped the agenda Thursday as the party's eight presidential candidates gathered for their third primary debate.
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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the other Democratic candidates for president lobbied for the African-American vote on Thursday with vows to make sure black votes are fully counted in the 2008 election.
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Howard Dean's bid for chairmanship of the Democratic Party has tapped into members' hunger for a fighter who can recruit new supporters, raise plenty of money and inspire enthusiasm in a party out of power.
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WASHINGTON - John Kerry suggested Saturday night that Republicans may try to keep black voters from casting their ballots to help President Bush win in November. "We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election," the Democratic presidential nominee told the Congressional Black Caucus...
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Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Saturday the large turnout for the Iowa caucuses indicates Americans are looking for a Democrat to run the White House in 2008, but he added that the party still has to work to make that happen.
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State party leaders gave their backing Monday to Howard Dean in his bid to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee, putting the former presidential candidate in a strong position to win the election in about two weeks.
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Meeting with black religious leaders and traveling with Jesse Jackson, Sen. John Kerry reached out this week to black voters as his presidential campaign entered its final month.