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May 17, 2004

Kucinich presses on in campaign to sway party

By Rick Lyman
The New York Times

PORTLAND - Before Americans get too engrossed in a general election contest between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, would like to remind them of something: He's still out here, working hard every day, slogging from town to town, the second-to-last person still standing in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.

``Math is not my major, but I can count,'' the Ohio congressman said as his car wound along the dripping, piney woods of the central Oregon Coast, a glowering sky flecking the windshield with pin-sized raindrops. ``I understand that Kerry has enough delegates to be nominated. I can count, but I can also figure.''

And this is how Dennis Kucinich - former boy-mayor of Cleveland whose half-forgotten, dead-but-still-twitching presidential campaign is now targeting Tuesday's Oregon primary - figures it: (Full Story)

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