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| Dear Yahoo!: |
| How many people are running for president in 2008? |
Debbie
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Dear Debbie: |
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In a word, lots. Of course, most of these candidates will soon realize they haven't a snowball's chance in hell of winning. But until that bitter day arrives, here's the current list of everyone who has filed with the Federal Election Committee: Democrats: - Joseph Biden -- senator from Delaware
- Hillary Clinton -- senator from New York
- Christopher Dodd -- senator from Connecticut
- John Edwards -- former senator from North Carolina
- Mike Gravel -- former senator from Alaska
- Dennis Kucinich -- representative from Ohio
- Barack Obama -- senator from Illinois
- Bill Richardson -- governor of New Mexico
- Tom Vilsack -- governor of Iowa (since withdrawn)
Republicans: - Samuel Brownback -- senator from Kansas
- Jim Gilmore -- former governor of Virginia
- Rudolph Giuliani -- former mayor of New York City
- Mike Huckabee -- former governor of Arkansas
- Duncan Hunter
-- representative from California
- John McCain -- senator from Arizona
- Mitt Romney -- former governor of Massachusetts
- Tom Tancredo -- representative from Colorado
- Tommy Thompson -- former governor of Wisconsin and former Secretary of Health and Human Services
There are plenty of third-party candidates too. User-edited site Wikipedia lists all the "official and potential" candidates. Some of the better known possibilities include: - Elaine Brown -- former Black Panther leader running for the Green Party nomination
- Doug Stanhope -- former host of Comedy Central's "The Man Show" running for the Libertarian nomination
- Michael Moriarty -- actor and former star of "Law and Order" running as an independent candidate
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