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Lincoln Chafee had considered it. He finally decided on it. He would run for president in 2004. He belived that Bush had ruined this once great country. His Iraq war was so disastrous that former supporters of the war were saying that they should have never gone in. So what better way to stop Bush than to become the only man in history to defeat an incumbent president in the primaries.
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On March 10 2003 he would make this announcement "My fellow Americans, as of today our country has been badly hurt by our current president. So as of today I will be running for president for the Republican party. We need a great political revolution to make America Great again!"

March 17th polls
Bush: 72%
Chafee: 25%
Other: 3%
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