Campaign '04: Kerry's Record

His 19 years as a Senator involved big investigations, little legislation--and some surprising alliances. A TIME report

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In New Hampshire, Kerry fared best among those looking for experience and leadership, Dean with those in search of change. Dean's fate so far suggests he may be asking for too much. In uncertain times it's never natural for voters to change leaders midstream, and to ask them to embrace wholesale revolution may be enough to inspire a movement but not enough to unseat a popular and well-funded incumbent. If Democrats are making that calculation, then John Kerry seems to represent about the amount of revolution they think the country can handle at the moment. --With reporting by James Carney and Karen Tumulty/Washington, Eric Roston with Kerry and Perry Bacon Jr. with Dean

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