WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic presidential hopeful Chris Dodd may be trailing in the polls, but he says don’t count him out of the race just yet.
Dodd appeared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and was presented with poll results showing him last in the eight-person field, with 0 percent support.
The most recent AP-Ipsos polls showed Dodd at 1 percent.
“Well, we’ve got a lot of room to grow here, as we say,” he said. The Connecticut senator noted that John Kerry trailed Howard Dean at this stage of the Democratic race in 2003, but came back to win the Iowa caucuses and ultimately the presidential nomination.
“I feel very good about where we are today, and I’ve certainly been around this long enough to know whether or not there’s room to grow, whether or not you’ve got an opportunity to win the nomination,” Dodd said. “And I believe there’ll be three or four tickets coming out of Iowa before you go to New Hampshire, and I think that’s a very open question.”
He said the overwhelming majority of Iowa voters are undecided, and said history has shown that rarely has the person in the lead at this stage prevailed in the caucuses and primaries.
“So if history is any teacher at all, then there’s someone here that is in this second tier that’s going to emerge, I think, and, and be a viable candidate come January, February,” Dodd said, implying it could be him.
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