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Mike Huckabee - A Political Profile

Mike who? Most Americans hear “Huckabee” and think (a) it’s a spin-off restaurant from the Applebee’s chain, or (b) that Fox Searchlight movie from 2004 with Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin.
But, no Mike Huckabee is a real candidate with real ambitions, and he has lately surged ahead in the polls, trouncing John McCain and [...]

Rudy Giuliani - Republican

Rudy Giuliani was born May 28, 1944, in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.
He is the second-generation descendant of Italian immigrants on both his parents’ side.
He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, graduating from there in 1961.
He then went to Manhattan College in the Bronx, where he majored in political science [...]

Barack Obama - Democrat

Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
His childhood is marked with extreme conflict and struggle.
The son of a Caucasian mother from Wichita, Kansas and a Kenyan father from Nyanza Province, Kenya, his parents divorced when he was just two years old.
His father was later to die in an automobile [...]

Duncan Hunter - Republican

Duncan Hunter was born May 31, 1948 in Riverside, California.
He graduated from Rubidoux High School in 1966.
He first attended the University of Montana for a year, then transferred to the University of California at Santa Barbara, before enlisting in the United States Army in 1969.
This would lead him to serve in the [...]

Dennis Kucinich - Democrat

Dennis Kucinich was born October 8, 1946, in Cleveland, Ohio.
He attended Cleveland State University up until 1970, when he switched to Case Western Reserve University.
He graduated in 1973 with both a BA and an MA in speech and communication.
While still in University, his political ambitions asserted themselves at an incredibly early [...]

Hillary Clinton - A Political Profile

When we turn our eyes to Hillary Clinton, we see the exciting prospect of our first woman President.
We see someone who has the upper hand, with a husband who served two terms in that office and knows how to win it.
We see an established states-person, who has already been an activist for various [...]

Mike Gravel - Democrat

Mike Gravel was born May 13, 1930 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Although he came from a working-class neighborhood, he was able to attend Assumption College Preparatory School, and put in one year at American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, before leaving in 1951 to enlist in the U.
S.
Army.
There, he served as a Special Adjutant [...]