The candidates bring different experiences, abilities, temperaments, philosophies and leadership styles to the campaign. Their campaign organizations present these qualities to the voters with varying degrees of success. |
Republican: President
George W. Bush (TX) and Vice President Dick Cheney (WY): Bush-Cheney
'04, Inc., The White House,
Republican
Nat'l Committee
Democratic: Senator
John Kerry (MA) and Senator John Edwards (NC): Kerry-Edwards
2004, Inc., U.S. Senate office,
P2000
page (nominating
process)
Independent: Ralph
Nader (CT) and Peter Miguel Camejo (CA): Nader
for President 2004, Citizen
Works, Democracy Rising,
P2000
page, Nader 2004 Draft Committee
Green: David Cobb (CA) and Pat LaMarche
(ME): Cobb/LaMarche
2004
Libertarian: Michael
Badnarik (TX) and Dr. Richard Campagna (IA): Badnarik
for President, Dr.
Richard V. Campagna
(nominating
process)
Constitution: Michael Peroutka (MD)
and Dr. Chuck Baldwin (FL):Peroutka
2004, Inc., Institute
on the Constitution, "Chuck
Baldwin Live"
(acceptance
remarks)
Socialist: Walter Brown (OR) and
Mal Herbert (VT): Brown/Herbert
in 2004, Socialist
Party U.S.A. Campaign Page photo
(nominating
process)
Socialist Workers Party: "Róger Calero, 35, is the associate editor of the Spanish-language magazine Perspectiva Mundial and a staff writer for the Militant. He lives in Newark, New Jersey. Calero has lived in the United States since 1985, when his family moved from Nicaragua to Los Angeles. Arrin Hawkins, 29, is a garment worker in New York. She was the Socialist Workers Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York in 2002." >> Socialist Equality Party:
In January 2004 the Socialist Equality Party announced
Bill Van Auken for president and Jim Lawrence for vice president.
"Bill Van Auken, 54, is a full-time writer for the World Socialist Web
Site. He lives in New York City. Jim Lawrence, 65, is a retired auto
worker, who worked at General Motors plants in the Dayton, Ohio, area for
30 years."
Political Activity-Hatch Act
(U.S. Office of Special Counsel)
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The Natural Law Party which ran Dr. John
Hagelin in 1996 and 2000, closed its national headquarters in April 2004.
Hagelin backed Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) in the primaries.
Some Greens advanced former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D) as a possible presidential candidate, but she ruled it out. Many
more individuals who you've probably never heard of at presented themselves
as candidates or were advanced as possible candidates.
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