Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Web posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Dem convention goes with liberal Kucinich

By CATHY BROWN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Close to half of Alaska's elected delegates to the Democratic National Convention will cast their votes for Dennis Kucinich - the only candidate to visit the state and a man with virtually no chance of winning the nomination.

The rest of the elected delegates, a little more than half, are pledged to support the presumed presidential nominee, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry.

Alaska Democrats send 18 delegates and four nonvoting alternates to the convention. That's just a sliver of the 5,000 delegates and alternates from around the country who will gather at the July 26-29 convention in Boston, according to the Democratic National Convention Committee.

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