Thursday, March 04, 2004

Posted on Thu, Mar. 04, 2004

MINNESOTA: Kucinich's showing may be tribute to Wellstone

BY BILL SALISBURY

Pioneer Press

It may go down as just a footnote in Minnesota's political history, but dark-horse candidate Dennis Kucinich's strong showing in the presidential balloting at Tuesday night's Democratic-Farmer-Labor precinct caucuses surprised a lot of politicians and pundits.

Kucinich finished third, behind John Kerry and John Edwards, with 17 percent of the vote. That was by far the Ohio congressman's best performance in any of the 10 Super Tuesday contests, and it marked his second-highest share of the vote — after the 24 percent he got in the Hawaii caucuses — in the 30 state races so far.
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