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Hillary Clinton - Democrat

Hillary Clinton was born as Hillary Rodham in October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois.
She graduated Maine South High School in 1965 and went on to attend Wellesley College, where she majored in Political Science, and graduated in 1969.
Her next educational step was to attend Yale Law School, where she received a Juris Doctor [...]

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 [...]

Wayne Allyn Root - Libertarian

Wayne Allyn Root was born July 20, 1961, in Mount Vernon, New York.
He graduated Valedictorian from high school, and attended Columbia University as a political science major, to eventually graduate in 1983.
Other details are sketchy or not disclosed.
He resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
His occupations and avocations are business mogul, television celebrity, [...]

Barack Obama - A Political Profile

No one can deny that Barack Obama is a fresh breeze blowing though the political landscape.
In a country where every President has been a Caucasian European, he is a mixed-race candidate.
When most Presidents lately tend to be on the old side, he is young.
He has an advantage of experience in foreign countries, [...]

Alan Keyes - Republican

Alan Keyes was born August 7, 1950, in a naval hospital in Long Island, New York.
Being the son of a U.
S.
Army sergeant, he spent much of his childhood traveling from place to place including Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Italy.
After having graduated high school, he attended Cornell University [...]

Fred Thompson - Republican

Fred Thompson was born August 19, 1942 in Sheffield, Alabama.
He graduated from Lawrence County High School in Tennessee, and worked days at a post office and nights at a bicycle plant.
He enrolled in the University of North Alabama, being the first person in his family to attend college.
He later transferred to 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 [...]

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 [...]

Joe Biden - Democrat

Joe Biden was born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
He graduated in 1961 from the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, and in 1965, from the University of Delaware in Newark.
He graduated in 1968 from Syracuse University College of Law, and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969.
In that year, he began [...]