Sentence examples for gephardt from inspiring English sources
As a result, Mr Gore is wary of taking unpopular stands that might leave him vulnerable to attack from the bustling Mr Gephardt.
Mr Dean, by contrast, appeals to younger and college-educated voters, exactly the sort of people who have been fleeing Iowa for years.The latest Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby poll gives Mr Gephardt 21% of the vote, a mere three points behind Mr Dean.
Mr Gephardt is attacking his health-care reforms, Mr Kerry his lack of military experience.
For instance, if Mr Gephardt loses Iowa, he is effectively out of the race; even if he wins, he hardly has any money left to pay for other primary fights.Mr Dean, by contrast, is fighting a national campaign with a national organisation: if he loses in Iowa he is still the favourite in New Hampshire, where he stands a good chance of knocking Mr Kerry out of the race.
But a surprising number said that they thought that he was too much like George Bush for comfort too willing to shoot first and ask questions later.Mr Gephardt could well gain from this.
Among the Democratic candidates more or less certain to have the money are Mr Gore, Mr Kerry (after all, he has a very rich wife, Teresa Heinz), and Mr Gephardt, who may decide, given that the House could turn Democratic in 2000, that being the prospective speaker is a better bet than being a rival to Mr Gore.
The enthusiasm with which Mr Dean's rivals particularly Mr Gephardt have accused him of traducing one of the jewels of American democracy has been nauseating.
On November 27th, the party's leaders in Congress, Dick Gephardt of the House of Representatives and Tom Daschle of the Senate, travelled to Tallahassee to say they would back Mr Gore's decision to contest the results.
The Republicans threw a similar charge at the local Democratic chieftain, Richard Gephardt, the minority leader in the House.
The two main contenders for the Democratic nomination, Vice-President Al Gore and Representative Richard Gephardt, are now in competition for labour's increasingly desirable support.
