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Aired October 31, 2003 - 15:22 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Eager and committed college students often provide a spark of energy to presidential campaigns.
But it's worth noting that not everyone on campus is following the Democratic presidential race, as our Jason Bellini found out during a recent visit to UCLA.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Among the Democrats, do you know who is running for president?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who aren't they running?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, who isn't running? John Kerry, Lieberman, General Clark.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, Howard Dean from Vermont.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And Gary Coleman.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gary Coleman's not running, is he? No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Al Gore?
BELLINI: No, no Al Gore.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank God. I don't know then. I'm serious.
BELLINI: You don't know?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
BELLINI: Don't you care?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I really don't care about it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do I know who is running for president? No.
BELLINI: No? No idea? You don't know any of them? All right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Arnold is our governor. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's all I know.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is a governor in training.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You got Howard Dean. You got Dennis Kucinich. You got John Kerry. You got Dick Gephardt, that crazy South Carolinian guy, pseudo-Clinton. Edwards, I think his name is.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think there's, like, some, like, general dude. I think there's him.
BELLINI: That would be Wesley Clark.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That would be Wesley Clark. Yes, my dad, I hear he likes Wesley Clark, because he kind of likes -- I don't know. He kind of likes that war stuff.
BELLINI: If you could ask all these guys one question, if they were all assembled together and you could ask them one question, what would it be?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want to know more details about how they are going to approach health care.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How they would work to fix the economic crisis we are in right now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How they plan to balance the budget.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Why should I vote for you?" without giving me cheesy, canned political answer, like: "I'm going to bring America back to the values we once held," which we all know is just something that their person thought of 10 minutes before. Something real.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WOODRUFF: I like that "general dude" part. Again, that was CNN's Jason Bellini talking with students at UCLA.
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Aired October 31, 2003 - 15:22 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Eager and committed college students often provide a spark of energy to presidential campaigns.
But it's worth noting that not everyone on campus is following the Democratic presidential race, as our Jason Bellini found out during a recent visit to UCLA.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Among the Democrats, do you know who is running for president?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who aren't they running?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, who isn't running? John Kerry, Lieberman, General Clark.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, Howard Dean from Vermont.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And Gary Coleman.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gary Coleman's not running, is he? No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Al Gore?
BELLINI: No, no Al Gore.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank God. I don't know then. I'm serious.
BELLINI: You don't know?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
BELLINI: Don't you care?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I really don't care about it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do I know who is running for president? No.
BELLINI: No? No idea? You don't know any of them? All right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Arnold is our governor. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's all I know.
(CROSSTALK)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is a governor in training.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You got Howard Dean. You got Dennis Kucinich. You got John Kerry. You got Dick Gephardt, that crazy South Carolinian guy, pseudo-Clinton. Edwards, I think his name is.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think there's, like, some, like, general dude. I think there's him.
BELLINI: That would be Wesley Clark.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That would be Wesley Clark. Yes, my dad, I hear he likes Wesley Clark, because he kind of likes -- I don't know. He kind of likes that war stuff.
BELLINI: If you could ask all these guys one question, if they were all assembled together and you could ask them one question, what would it be?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want to know more details about how they are going to approach health care.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How they would work to fix the economic crisis we are in right now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How they plan to balance the budget.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Why should I vote for you?" without giving me cheesy, canned political answer, like: "I'm going to bring America back to the values we once held," which we all know is just something that their person thought of 10 minutes before. Something real.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
WOODRUFF: I like that "general dude" part. Again, that was CNN's Jason Bellini talking with students at UCLA.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
