Chris Dodd for President

Standing on the front stoop of Joe and Sarah Pace's Pleasant View Drive home while his young daughter Christina hugged his leg, Sen. Chris Dodd told a crowd of 40 people why he decided to run for president.
Dodd, a longtime Democratic senator from Connecticut, told the crowd of his daughter's birth just two days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"I'm standing before you because of this young lady and her sister, who's 2 1/2, wondering what kind of world we're going to leave them," said Dodd, 63.
Dodd arrived at the Paces' house party just after 1:30 p.m. He addressed the crowd for more than an hour, touching up on his decades of experience in politics, his universal health care plan, his foreign policy experience and his plan for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
He acknowledged that he is not as well known as some of the candidates, but hopes the style of New Hampshire primary politics can change that.
Dodd was first elected to Congress in 1974 and served three terms in the House of Representatives before being elected a senator in 1980.
"I think experience does matter to people," Dodd said. "We've been through six years of on-the-job training with this administration." . . .