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...Fourteen years after his first, failed presidential bid, Gephardt, 61, looks remarkably like the brash young candidate he was then. His hair may be thinner, his jaw a bit thicker, but he still looks perpetually fresh-especially for a candidate many are ready to write off as shopworn. But he's been ignored in the buzz over new Democratic faces like Senators John Edwards and John Kerry. Like Bob Dole before him, Gephardt is finding it is hard to shape a bold presidential vision when his day job keeps him immersed in legislative minutiae. His passion doesn't come across...
...Doggedness has kept Gephardt in the game, but it has not been enough to put him on top of his division. Democratic leader since 1994, he has regained seats in each election since but always came up short of a majority. Whatever presidential dreams Gephardt harbors for 2004, if he doesn't produce a Democratic House majority this November, "he starts looking like a loser," says an operative in the camp of a rival Democratic presidential candidate...
...Gephardt wins, it's very much in question whether he would take the job of Speaker or leave to start a 2004 presidential campaign. Those around him are convinced he would hit the trail. He may be an old face to party insiders, but he has to reintroduce himself to average voters. A woman at an Iowa Dairy Cream saw Gephardt getting an ice cream on Thursday and asked him if he was Senator Daschle. Not long ago, he says, laughing, two women at an airport begged him to settle a $5 bet: Was he Dan Quayle...
...Gore stumbles-or gets pushed-Gephardt has nurtured the organization, alliances and funding it takes to vault to the front of the pack. All three will matter more than ever in a front-loaded primary calendar that means candidates have to make a national impact even before the Iowa caucuses. No one, not even Gore, is closer to labor, thanks to the many battles Gephardt has fought for unions over trade issues. And the more the Dow sinks, the more broadly appealing his brand of feisty populism sounds...
...stumped across Iowa last week, a few people dug out their Gephardt yard signs from 1988. "I don't think the Democrats would find a better candidate," said Herb Goettsch, who came to a fund raiser in Bettendorf wearing a 14-year-old boater that Gephardt autographed the last time they met. But first, the House has to be won. The hardest-working man in politics has to take it one November at a time...