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Zell Miller keeps low profile this election |
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By Bob Cusack
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Posted: 10/23/08 03:15 PM [ET] |
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Former Sen. Zell Miller has not publicly endorsed a White House hopeful this cycle, four years after playing a prominent role in President Bush’s reelection race. The conservative Democrat from Georgia has kept a relatively low profile this presidential election. In 2004, Miller delivered a blistering attack on then-Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) during his keynote address at the GOP convention. Miller, who is with the law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge, has declined several requests for interviews on whether he supports Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) or Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president. The ex-senator’s Wikipedia page claims that Miller had said he would not support Obama or Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the 2008 presidential election. But the entry is not footnoted and no such statement could be found on the LexisNexis database of transcripts, blogs and newspaper articles. Miller was an early backer of Bill Clinton in his successful 1992 bid for the presidency. The only political donation Miller has made this cycle was $1,000 to Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) in August 2007. The 76-year-old Miller, who famously challenged MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to a duel during an interview after Miller's 2004 convention speech, retired from the Senate in 2004. Some Democrats and political observers have compared Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to Miller. Lieberman strongly criticized Obama during his address at this year’s Republican convention in Minnesota. |
