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Boston Globe
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Democrat Chris Dodd yesterday picked up one of the presidential campaign's first major labor endorsements -- from the same union that helped propel John F. Kerry to the Democratic nomination in 2004.
The International Association of Fire Fighters will announce today that it will back the Connecticut senator, who has campaigned nonstop in early presidential primary states and spent tens of thousands on television advertising, but has failed to get out of the single digits in the polls and break out of the second tier of candidates.
"Chris Dodd has been under the radar so far and this news could be the very thing that could allow him to pop up," said Wayne Lesperance, a political science professor at New England College in Henniker, N.H.
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public. date:
August 29, 2007
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/29/major_endorsement_by_labor_goes_to_dodd/
