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| While the elections might seem very far in the future, the presidential hopefuls are hot on the campaign trail. Here we will outline the various candidates and hopefuls and let you make your decision. |
 RepublicansRepublicans (Click the link to view all the Republican candidates) |
Candidate: John McCain
Title: Senator from Arizona
Campaign Status: Statement of Candidacy
Bio: John McCain has a remarkable record of leadership and experience that embodies his unwavering lifetime commitment to service. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona in 1982, John has led the fight for reforming Washington, eliminating wasteful government spending, and strengthening our nation's armed forces.
John McCain's reform agenda to reduce federal spending and lower taxes quickly elevated him to statewide office and he was elected to the United States Senate in 1986, after serving two terms in the U.S. House.
In the Senate, John continued to demand that Congress put an end to loopholes for special interests and fix the broken system in Washington that too often allows lobbyists to write legislation and members of Congress to waste taxpayer money. In November 2004, Senator McCain was overwhelmingly reelected with nearly 77 percent of the vote.
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Candidate: Mitt Romney
Title: Former Governor of Massachusetts
Campaign Status: Potential Vice President
Bio: Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has been widely recognized for his leadership and accomplishments as a public servant and in private enterprise.
Elected in 2002, Governor Romney presided over a dramatic reversal of state fortunes and a period of sustained economic expansion. Without raising taxes or increasing debt, Governor Romney balanced the budget every year of his administration, closing a $3 billion budget gap inherited when he took office. By eliminating waste, streamlining the government, and enacting comprehensive economic reforms to stimulate growth in Massachusetts, Romney got the economy moving again and transformed deficits into surpluses.
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Candidate: Tim Pawlenty
Title: Former Governor of Minnesota
Campaign Status: Potential Vice President
Bio: Tim Pawlenty was born near the stockyards of South St. Paul. His father was a truck driver and his mother passed away when he was young. The first in his family to graduate from college, Pawlenty worked while attending the University of Minnesota and went on to become a criminal prosecutor.
Upon being elected, Governor Pawlenty dealt with several major challenges. He resolved an historic $4.5 billion deficit without raising taxes and he replaced the failed Profile of Learning with more rigorous standards for Minnesota's classrooms.
Throughout his first term Governor Pawlenty has led the nation in allowing Minnesotans to purchase more affordable prescription drugs from Canada and the United Kingdom. He has also delivered record funding increases for our classrooms while cracking down on meth dealers, sex offenders and illegal immigrants.
He has also undertaken an aggressive reform agenda, focusing on common-sense solutions for education, health care, agriculture and crime.
Governor Pawlenty enjoys playing hockey and running, including the Twin Cities Marathon. He and his wife Mary, a district judge, live in Eagan with their two children.
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 DemocratsDemocrats (Click the link to view all the Democratic candidates) |
Candidate: Barack Obama
Title: Senator from Illinois
Campaign Status: Statement of Candidacy
Bio: It has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama's life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today's public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain.
In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
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Candidate: Hillary Clinton
Title: Senator from New York
Campaign Status: Potential Vice President
Bio: In 2000, Hillary was elected to the United States Senate from New York. As Senator, Hillary has continued her advocacy for children and families and has been a national leader on homeland security and national security issues.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Hillary worked with her colleagues to secure the funds New York needed to recover and rebuild. She fought to provide compensation to the families of the victims, grants for hard-hit small businesses, and health care for front line workers at Ground Zero. And she continues to work for resources that enable New York to grow, to improve homeland security for New York and other communities, and to protect all Americans from future attacks.
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Candidate: John Edwards
Title: Senator from North Carolina
Campaign Status: Potential Vice President
Bio: John Edwards served one term as U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination through the January primaries, until dropping out, and later endorsing Senator Barack Obama.
He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election and toward the end of his six-year term sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2004 presidential election.
He eventually became the 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice President, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. After Edwards and Kerry lost the election to incumbents George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Edwards began working full time at the One America Committee, a political action committee he established in 2001, and was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He was also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC.
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South Carolina Republican Debate
Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 |
| South Carolina Republican Debate |
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New Hampshire Democratic Debate
Thursday, Jun 14, 2007 |
| Part 2 of the New Hampshire Democratic Debate |
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