Wesley Clark got off to a late start in his quest for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, but he's not the first Rhodes scholar from Arkansas to accelerate slowly off the line in pursuit of the nation's highest office.
It was on Oct. 4, 1991 _ barely four months before the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire _ that a relatively unknown Southern governor entered a muddled Democratic field and quickly grabbed the party's imagination.
Ironically, on the 12th anniversary of Clinton's entry into the national political scene, Clark has surged to the top of Democratic polls despite lagging behind the nine other contenders in piecing together an organization and raising funds.
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