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  Louisiana Gov and Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal has stood by his controversial remarks in which he blamed the mass shooting at Umpqua Community
  College in Oregon on the shooter's father. 
  
  In a blog post on his campaign website, Jindal said Chris Harper-Mercer's father,
  Ian Mercer, is 'the problem' and that he 'should be
  embarrassed to even show his face in public'. 
  
  After facing criticism for his comments, he stood by his claims on Sunday during
  a televised interview. 
  
  Jindal claims that the October 1 shooting, which left ten people dead
  including Harper-Mercer, occurred partly because Ian Mercer was
  not in his son's life. 
  
  
  
  
  
  Bobby Jindal, pictured here in September, said on Sunday that the Oregon shooting
  at Umpqua Community College should be blamed on the gunman's
  father
  
  
  
  
  
  Gunman Chris Harper-Mercer lived with his mother and hadn't been in contact with
  his father, Ian Mercer, who claims he didn't know his son owned guns
  
  'The killer's father is now lecturing us on the need for gun control and he says he has
  no idea how or where his son got the guns,' Jindal wrote on his blog.
  'Of course he doesn't know. You know why he doesn't know? 
  
  'Because he is not, and has never been in his son's life.
  He is a complete failure as a father, he should be embarrassed to even show his face in public.
  He's the problem here.'
  
  
  
  
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  Though Jindal received backlash following his comments,
  he doubled down on Sunday during an interview with ABC News saying Ian Mercer has
  no right to lecture Americans on gun control. 
  
  'We've got a culture that doesn't value life. We've got millions of
  boys growing up without father figures, without that guidance at home,
  ' he said. 
  
  
  
  
  
  Speaking to ABC, Jindall called Ian Mercer 'a complete
  failure as a father' criticizing the man for not being in his son's life.
  He claimed Mercer 'doesn't need to be lecturing us on gun control'
  
  
  
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  He added: 'Too often these shooters are misguided young men. So you've got Hillary Clinton,
  Barack Obama, now this shooter's father lecturing us on the need for gun control. 
  
  'He doesn't need to be lecturing us. He by his own admission didn't know how his son got those guns, didn't
  know how many guns his son had. 
  
  'By his own admission wasn't involved in his son's life, hadn't
  been communicating with him since he was living with his mother. He doesn't need to be lecturing us on gun control. 
  
  'We need to fix our culture. We need a renaissance of decency, we need a spiritual revival
  in this country. Passing more laws to take away the rights
  of law-abiding Americans won't solve this problem, won't stop the next massacre, won't stop the next tragedy.'
  
  He also told ABC that there is a 'moral decay going on in our
  culture', that has led to too much violence in movies, TV,
  video games and music.  
  
  
  THE 2016 FIELD: WHO'S IN, WHO'S QUIT AND WHO'S STILL THINKING IT OVER
  
  A whopping 20 people from America's two major political parties are candidates in the
  2016 presidential election.
  
  The field includes two women, an African-American and two Latinos.
  
  All but one in that group - Hillary Clinton - are Republicans.
  
  
  At 15 candidates, the GOP field is without two early dropouts but still deeper than ever after one current and one former governor bowed out.
  
  
  A few Democrats are still assessing their chances at succeeding in a much smaller group of five that includes a
  former secretary of state and a current senator.
  
  REPUBLICANS IN THE RACE 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jeb Bush       Former Florida governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 63
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Moderates                
  
  Résumé: Former Florida governor and secretary of state.
  Former co-chair of the Barbara Bush Foundation for
  Family Literacy.
  
  Education: B.A. University of Texas at Austin.
  
  Family: Married to Columba Bush (1974), with three adult children. Noelle Bush has made news with her struggle with drug addiction,
  and related arrests. George P. Bush was elected Texas land commissioner in 2014.
  Jeb's father George H.W. Bush was the 41st President of the United States, and
  his brother George W. Bush was number 43.
  
  
  Claim to fame: Jeb was an immensely popular governor with strong economic and jobs credentials.
  He is also one of just two GOP candidates who is fluent in Spanish.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Bush has angered conservatives with his permissive positions on illegal immigration (saying some border-crossing is 'an act
  of love) and common-core education standards.
  His last name could also be a liability with voters who fear
  establishing a family dynasty in the White House.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chris Christie        New Jersey governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 54
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Establishment-minded conservatives
  
  Résumé: Governor of New Jersey. Former
  U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Former Morris County freeholder and lobbyist.
  
  
  Governor of New Jersey. Former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
  
  Former Morris County freeholder. Former statehouse lobbyist.
  
  
  
  Education: B.A. University of Delaware, Newark, J.D.
  Seton Hall University.
  
  Family: Married to Mary Pat Foster (1986) with four children.
  
  Claim to fame: Pugnacious and unapologetic, Christie once told a heckler to 'sit
  down and shut up' and brings a brash style to everything he does.
  
  That includes the post-9/11 criminal prosecutions of
  terror suspects that made his reputation as a hard-charger.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Christie is often accused of embracing an ego-driven and needlessly abrasive style.
  His administration continues to operate under a 'Bridgegate' cloud:
  At least two aides have been indicted in an alleged scheme to shut down lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge
  as political retribution for a mayor who refused to endorse
  the governor's re-election.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Carly Fiorina         Former tech CEO
  
  Age on Election Day: 62
  
  Religion:      Episcopalian 
  
  Base: Conservatives
  
  Résumé: Former CEO of Hewett-Packard. Former group president of
  Lucent Technologies. Former U.S. Senate candidate
  in California.
  
  Education: B.A. Stanford University. UCLA School of Law (did not finish).
  M.B.A. University of Maryland. M.Sci. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
  
  
  Family: Married to Frank Fiorina (1985), with one adult step-daughter and another who is deceased.
  She has two step-grandchildren. Divorced from
  Todd Bartlem (1977-1984).
  
  Claim to fame: Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company, something
  that could provide ammunition against the Democratic Party's
  drive to make Hillary Clinton the first female president.
  She is also the only woman in the 2016 GOP field, making her the one Republican who can't be accused of sexism.
  
  
  
  Achilles heel: Fiorina's unceremonious firing by HP's board has led to questions about her management and leadership styles.
  And her only political experience has been a failed Senate bid
  in 2010 against Barbara Boxer.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lindsey Graham  South Carolina senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 61
  
  Religion:        Southern Baptist
  
  Base: Otherwise moderate war hawks 
  
  Résumé: U.S. senator. Retired Air Force Reserves colonel.
  Former congressman. Former South Carolina state representative.
  
  
  Education: B.A. University of South Carolina. J.D. University of South
  Carolina Law School.
  
  Family: Never married. Raised his sister Darline after their parents died
  while he was a college student and she was 13.
  
  Claim to fame: Graham is a hawk's hawk, arguing consistently for greater
  intervention in the Middle East, once arguing in favor of pre-emptive military strikes against Iran.
  His influence was credited for pushing President George
  W. Bush to institute the 2007 military 'surge' in Iraq.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Some of his critics have taken to call him
  'Grahamnesty,' citing his participating in a 2013 'gang of
  eight' strategy to approve an Obama-favored immigration bill.
  He has also aroused the ire of conservative Republicans by supporting global warming
  legislation and voting for some of the president's
  judicial nominees.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bobby Jindal     Louisiana governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 45
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Social conservatives 
  
  Résumé: Governor of Louisiana. Former congressman. Former
  Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation. Former Secretary of the
  Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
  
  
  Education: B. Sci. Brown University. M.Litt. New College at Oxford University
  
  Family: Married to Supriya Jolly (1997), with three children,
  each of whom has an Indian first name and an American middle name.
  Bobby Jindal's given name is Piyush.
  
  Claim to fame: Jindal's main source of national attention has been his strident opposition to federal-level 'Common Core' education standards, which included a federal lawsuit that a judge
  dismissed in late March. He is also outspoken on the religious-freedom issues involved in mainstreaming gay marriage into the lives of American Christians.
  
  
  Achilles heel: During his first term as governor, Jindal signed a
  science education law that requires schools to present alternatives to the theory of evolution, including religious creationism.
  His staunch defense of businesses that want to steer clear of providing
  services to same-sex couples at their weddings will win points among evangelicals but alienate others.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  George Pataki      Former New York governor 
  
  Age on Election Day: 71 
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Centrists
  
  Résumé: Former governor of New York. Former New York state senator and state
  assemblyman. Former mayor of Peekskill, NY.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Yale University. J.D. Columbia Law School.
  
  
  Family: Married to Libby Rowland (1973), with
  four adult children.
  
  Claim to fame: Pataki was just the third Republican governor in New York's history, winning an improbable victory over three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo in 1994.
  He was known for being a rare tax-cutter in Albany and was also the sitting governor when the 9/11 terror attacks rocked New York CIty in 2001.
  
  
  Achilles heel: While Pataki's liberal-leaning social agenda plays well in the
  Empire State, it won't win him any fans among the GOP's conservative base.
  He supports abortion rights and gay rights, and has advocated strongly in favor of government intervention to stop global warming, which
  right-wingers believe is overblown as a global threat.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Marco Rubio         Florida senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 45
  
  Religion:          Catholic
  
  Base: Conservatives
  
  Résumé: US senator, former speaker of the Florida
  House of Representatives, former city commissioner of West Miami
  
  Education: B.A. University of Florida. J.D. University of Miami School of Law.
  
  
  Family: Married to Jeanette Dousdebes (1998), with two
  sons and two daughters. Jeanette is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader who posed for the
  squad's first swimsuit calendar. 
  
  Claim to fame: Rubio's personal story as the son of Cuban emigres is a powerful narrative, and helped him
  win his Senate seat in 2010 against a well-funded
  governor whom he initially trailed by 20 points.
  
  Achilles heel: Rubio was part of a bipartisan 'gang of eight'
  senators who crafted an Obama-approved immigration reform bill in 2013 which never
  became law - a move that angered conservative Republicans.
  
  And he was criticized in 2011 for publicly telling a version of
  his parents' flight from Cuba that turned out to appear embellished.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Donald Trump     Real estate developer
  
  
  Age on Election Day: 70
  
  Religion:     Presbyterian 
  
  
  Base: Conservatives   
  
  Résumé: Chairman of The Trump Organization. Fixture on the Forbes 400 list of the world's richest people.
  Star of 'Celebrity Apprentice.'
  
  Education: B.Sci. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  
  Family: Married to Melania Trump (2005). Divorced from Ivana Zelníčková (1977-92) and Marla Maples(1993-99).
  Five grown children. Trump's father Fred Trump amassed a $400 million fortune
  developing real estate.
  
  Claim to fame: Trump's niche in the 2016 campaign stems from his celebrity as a reality-show host and his enormous wealth - more than $10 billion, according to Trump.
  
  Because he can self-fund an entire presidential campaign, he is seen as
  less beholden to donors than other candidates.
  He has grabbed the attention of reporters and commentators by unapologetically
  staking out controversial positions and refusing to
  budge in the face of criticism.
  
  Achilles heel: Trump is a political neophyte who has toyed with
  running for president and for governor of New York, but
  shied away from taking the plunge until now. His billions also have the potential
  to alienate large swaths of the electorate. And his Republican rivals have labeled him an ego-driven celeb and an electoral sideshow because of his all-over-the-map policy history - much of
  which agreed with today's today's democrats - and his past enthusiasm for anti-Obama 'birtherism.'
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ben Carson       Retired Physician
  
  Age on Election Day: 65
  
  Religion:              Seventh-day Adventist
  
  Base: Evangelicals
  
  Résumé: Famous pediatric neurosurgeon, youngest person to head a major Johns Hopkins Hospital division. Founder of the Carson Scholars Fund, which awards scholarships to children of good character.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Yale University. M.D. University of Michigan Medical School.
  
  
  Family: Married to Candy Carson (1975), with three adult sons.
  The Carsons live in Maryland with Ben's elderly mother Sonya, who was a seminal influence on his life and
  development. 
  
  Claim to fame: Carson spoke at a National Prayer Breakfast in 2013, railing against political correctness and condemned Obamacare - with President Obama sitting just a few feet away.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Carson is inflexibly conservative, opposing gay
  marriage and once saying gay attachments formed in prison provided evidence
  that sexual orientation is a choice.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ted Cruz            Texas senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 45
  
  Religion:         Southern Baptist
  
  Base: Tea partiers
  
  Résumé:U.S. senator. Former Texas solicitor general.
  Former U.S. Supreme Court clerk. Former associate deputy attorney general under President George
  W. Bush.
  
  Education: B.A. Princeton University. J.D. Harvard Law School.
  
  
  Family: Married to Heidi Nelson Cruz (2001), with two young daughters.
  His father is a preacher and he has two half-sisters.
  
  
  
  Claim to fame: Cruz spoke on the Senate floor for more than 21 hours in September 2013
  to protest the inclusion of funding for Obamacare in a federal budget bill.
  (The bill moved forward as written.) He has called for the complete repeal of the medical
  insurance overhaul law, and also for a dismantling of the Internal Revenue Service.
  Cruz is also outspoken about border security.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Cruz's father Rafael, a Texas preacher, is a tea party firebrand who
  has said gay marriage is a government conspiracy and called President Barack
  Obama a Marxist who should 'go back to Kenya.' Cruz himself also has a
  reputation as a take-no-prisoners Christian evangelical, which
  might play well in South Carolina but won't win him points in the
  other early primary states and could cost him momentum if he
  should be the GOP's presidential nominee.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jim Gilmore     Former Virginia governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 67
  
  Religion: United Methodist
  
      Base: Conservatives
  
  Résumé: Former governor and attorney general of Virginia.
  Former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Former U.S.
  Army intelligence agent. President and CEO of
  the Free Congress Foundation. Board member of the
  National Rifle Association
  
  Education: B.A. University of Virginia.
  
  Family: Married to Roxane Gatling Gilmore (1977), with two adult children. Mrs.
  GIlmore is a survivor of Hodgkin's lymphoma
  
  Claim to fame: Gilmore presided over Virginia when the 9/11 terrorists struck in 1991, guiding
  the state through a difficult economic downturn after one of the hijacked airliners
  crashed into the Pentagon. He is nest known in Virginia for eliminating
  most of a much-maligned personal property tax on automobiles, working with
  a Democratic-controlled state legislature to get it
  passed and enacted.
  
  Achilles heel: Gilmore is the only GOP or Democratic candidate
  for president who has been the chairman of his political party, giving him a rap as an 'establishment' candidate.
  A social-conservative crusader, he is loathed by the left for championing
  the state law that established 24-hour waiting periods for abortions.
  Gilmore also has a reputation as an indecisive campaigner, having
  dropped out of the 2008 presidential race in July 2007. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mike Huckabee     Former Arkansas governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 61
  
  Religion: Southern Baptist 
  
  Base: Evangelicals
  
  Résumé: Former governor and lieutenant governor of Arkansas.
  
  Former Fox News Channel host. Ordained minister and author.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Ouachita Baptist University. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  (did not finish). 
  
  Family: Married to Janet Huckabee (1974), with three
  adult children. Mrs. Huckabee is a survivor of spinal cancer.
  
  
  Claim to fame: 'Huck' is a political veteran and has run for president before, winning the Iowa Caucuses in 2008 and finishing second for the GOP nomination behind John McCain. He's known as an affable Christian and
  succeeded in building a huge following on his weekend television program, in which he frequently sat in on the electric bass with country & western groups and other 'wholesome' musical entertainers.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Huckabee may have a problem with female voters.
  He complained in 2014 about Obamacare's mandatory contraception coverage, saying Democrats want women to
  'believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar.' He earned more scorn for hawking herbal supplements in early-2015 infomercials as a diabetes cure, something
  he has yet to disavow despite disagreement from medical experts.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  John Kasich       Ohio governor 
  
  Age on Election Day: 64 
  
  Religion: Anglican
  
  Base: Centrists 
  
  Résumé: Governor of New York. Former chairman of the
  U.S. House Budget Committee. Former Ohio congressman. Former
  Ohio state senator.
  
  Education: B.A. The Ohio State University.
  
  Family: Married to Karen Waldbillig (1997). Divorced from Mary Lee Griffith (1975-1980).
  
  
  
  Claim to fame: Kasich was Ohio youngest-ever member of the state legislature at age
  25. He's known for a compassionate and working-class sensibility that appeals to both ends of the political spectrum.
  
  In the 1990s when Newt Gingrich led a Republican revolution that took over Congress, Kasich became
  the chairman of the House Budget Committee - a position for a wonk's wonk who understands the nuanced intricacies of how government runs.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Some of Kasich's political positions rankle conservatives, including his
  choice to expand Ohio's Medicare system under the Obamacare law, and his support for the much-derided 'Common Core'
  education standards program. 
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rand Paul      Kentucky senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 53
  
  Religion: Presbyterian 
  
  Base: Libertarians 
  
  Résumé: US senator. Board-certified ophthalmologist.
  
  Former congressional campaign manager for his father Ron Paul.
  
  
  Education: Baylor University (did not finish).
  M.D. Duke University School of Medicine.
  
  Family: Married to Kelley Ashby (1990), with three sons.
  His father is a former Texas congressman who ran for president three times but never got close to grabbing the brass ring.
  
  
  Claim to fame: Paul embraces positions that are at odds with
  most in the GOP, including an anti-interventionist foreign policy,
  reduced military spending, criminal drug sentencing reform for African-Americans and strict limits on government
  electronic surveillance - including a clampdown on the National Security Agency.
  
  
  Achilles heel: Paul's politics are aligned with those of his father, whom mainstream GOPers saw as kooky.
  Both Pauls have advocated for a brand of libertarianism that forces government to
  stop domestic surveillance programs and limits foreign military
  interventions.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rick Santorum     Former Penn. senator
  
  
  Age on Election Day: 58
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Evangelicals 
  
  Résumé: Former US senator and former member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
  
  Former lobbyist who represented World Wrestling Entertainment.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Penn State University. M.B.A. University of Pittsburgh.
  J.D. Penn State University Dickinson School of Law.
  
  
  Family: Married to Karen Santorum (1990), with
  seven living children. One baby was stillborn in 1996. Another, named
  Isabella, is a special needs child with a genetic disorder.
  
  
  Claim to fame: Santorum won the 2012 Republican Iowa Caucuses by a nose.
  
  He won by visiting all of Iowa's 99 states in a
  pickup truck belonging to his state campaign director, a consultant who now worls for Donald Trump.
  
  
  Achilles heel: As a young lobbyist, Santorum persuaded the federal government to exempt pro wrestling from regulations governing the use of anabolic steroids.
  And the stridently conservative politician has attracted strong opposition from
  gay rights groups. One gay columnist held a contest to redefine his name,
  buying the 'santorum.com' domain to advertise the winning
  entry - which is too vulgar to print.
  
   
  
  REPUBLICAN DROPOUTS
  
  Rick Perry, former Texas governor
  
       (withdrew Sept. 11, 2015)
  
  Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor
  
       (withdrew Sept. 21, 2015)
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEMOCRATS IN THE RACE 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lincoln Chafee  Former Rhode Island governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 63
  
  Religion:  Episcopalian                
                    Base: Centrists
  
  Résumé: Former Rhode Island governor. Former U.S.
  senator. Former city councilman and mayor of Warwick, RI.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Brown University. Graduate, Montana
  State University horseshoeing school.
  
  Family: Married to Stephanie Chafee (1990) with three children.
  Like him, his father John Chafee was a Rhode Island governor and
  US senator, but also served as Secretary of the
  Navy. Lincoln was appointed to his Senate
  seat when his father died in office.
  
  Claim to fame: While Chafee was a Republican senator during the
  George W. Bush administration, he cast his party's only
  vote in 2002 against a resolution that authorized military action in Iraq.
  Hillary Clinton, also a senator then, voted in favor - giving him a
  point of comparison that he hopes to ride to victory.
  
  Achilles heel: Chafee's lack of any significant party loyalty has turned allies
  into foes throughout his political career, and Democrats aren't sure he's entirely with them
  now. He was elected to the Senate as a Republican in 2000
  but left the party and declared himself a political
  independent after losing a re-election bid in 2006.
  As an independent, he was elected governor in 2010.
  Now he's running for president as a Democrat.
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Martin O'Malley    Former Maryland governor
  
  Age on Election Day: 53
  
  Religion: Catholic
  
  Base: Centrists 
  
  Résumé:Former Maryland governor. Former city councilor and mayor
  of Baltimore, MD. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Catholic University of America.
  J.D. University of Maryland.
  
  Family: Married to Katie Curran (1990) and they
  have four children. Curran is a district court judge in Baltimore.
  Her father is Maryland's attorney general. O'Malley's mother
  is a receptionists in the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Sen. Barbara
  Mikulski.
  
  Claim to fame: O'Malley pushed for laws in Maryland legalizing same-sex marriage and giving illegal immigrants the right to pay reduced tuition rates at
  public universities. But he's best known for playing guitar and sung in a celtic band cammed 'O'Malley's March.'
  
  Achilles heel: O'Malley may struggle in the Democratic primary
  since he endorsed Hillary Clinton eight years ago. If he prevails, he
  will have to run far enough to her left to be an easy target for the GOP.
  He showed political weakness when his hand-picked successor lost the
  2014 governor's race to a Republican. But most troubling is his link with Baltimore, whose
  2016 race riots have made it a nuclear subject for politicians of all stripes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Jim Webb      Former Virginia senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 70
  
  Religion: Christian (nondenominational)                    
          Base: War hawks and economic centrists
  
  Résumé:Former U.S. senator from Virginia. Former U.S.
  
  Secretary of the Navy under Ronamd Reagan. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.
  
  
  Education: B.A. US Naval Academy (transferred from the University of Southern California).
  J.D. Georgetown University.
  
  Family: Married to Hong Le Webb (2005). Divorced
  from Jo Ann Krukar (1981-2004). Divorced from Barbara Samorajczyk (1968-1979). 
  
  Claim to fame: Webb is the rare Democrat who can bring both robust defense credentials and a history of genuine bipartisanship to the race.
  He served in Republican president Ronald Reagan's defense directorate as Navy secretary, and earned both the Navy
  Star and the Purple Heart in combat. Webb is also seen as a quiet
  scholar who has written more than a half-dozen historical novels and a critically acclaimed history of Scots-Irish U.S.
  immigrants.
  
  Achilles heel: Webb has a reputation as a bit of a
  quitter. He resigned his Navy secretary post over a budget-cut dispute
  just 10 months after taking the job, and he declined to
  run for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2006.
  He also attracted bad press for defending the use of the Confederate
  flag as a heritage symbol for American southerners. Amid
  a nationwide clamor to remove the flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds, he wrote that Americans should 'respect the complicated history of the
  Civil War. ... Honorable Americans fought on both sides.'
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hillary Clinton Former sec. of state
  
  Age on Election Day: 69
  
  Religion: United Methodist 
  
  Base: Liberals 
  
  Résumé:Former secretary of state. Former U.S.
  senator from New York. Former U.S. first lady.
  Former Arkansas first lady. Former law school faculty, University of Arkansas Fayetteville.
  
  
  Education: B.A. Wellesley College. J.D.
  Yale Law School.
  
  Family: Married to Bill Clinton (1975), the 42nd
  President of the United States. Their daughter
  Chelsea is married to investment banker Marc
  Mezvinsky, whose mother was a 1990s one-term Pennsylvania congresswoman.
  
  Claim to fame: Clinton was the first US first lady with a postgraduate
  degree and presaged Obamacare with a failed attempt at health care reform in the
  1990s.
  
  Achilles heel: A long series of financial and ethical scandals has dogged Clinton,
  including recent allegations that her husband and their
  family foundation benefited financially from decisions she made as secretary
  of state. Her performance surrounding the 2012 terror attack on a State
  Department facility in Benghazi, Libya, has been catnip
  for conservative Republicans. And her presidential campaign has been marked by an unwillingness to engage journalists, instead meeting with hand-picked groups of voters.
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bernie Sanders*  Vermont senator
  
  Age on Election Day: 75
  
  Religion: Jewish
  
  Base: Far-left progressives
  
  Résumé:U.S. senator. Former U.S. congressman. Former
  mayor of Burlington, VT.
  
  
  Education: B.A. University of Chicago.
  
  Family: Married to Jane O'Meara Sanders (1988), a former president of Burlington College.
  He has one child from a previous relationship and is
  stepfather to three from Mrs. Sanders' previous marriage.
  His brother Larry is a Green Party politician in the UK and
  formerly served on the Oxfordshire County Council.
  
  Claim to fame: Sanders is an unusually blunt, and unapologetic pol,
  happily promoting progressivism without hedging. He is also the longest-serving 'independent' member of Congress - neither Democrat nor Republican.
  
  Achilles heel: Sanders describes himself as a 'democratic socialist.' At a time of huge GOP electoral gains, his far-left
  ideas don't poll well. He favors open borders, single-payer
  universal health insurance, and greater government control over media ownership.
  
  
  * Sanders is running as a Democrat but has no party affiliation in the Senate.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DEMOCRATS IN THE HUNT 
  
  Joe Biden, U.S. vice president
  
  Biden would be a natural candidate as the White House's sitting second-banana,
  but his reputation as a one-man gaffe factory could keep Democrats from
  taking him seriously.
  
  Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts senator
  
  Warren is a populist liberal who could give Hillary Clinton headaches by challenging her from
  the left, but she has said she has no plans to run and is happy in the U.S.
  Senate.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
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