All 2008 candidates declared by Feb. 1st?

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/487787p-410738c.html

Just got this via The Carpetbagger.

Democratic presidential hopefuls will have their first candidate forum early next month when the party convenes its winter meetings, the Daily News has learned.

"This is their kind of coming-out party," said a source familiar with planning for the Democratic National Committee's Feb. 1-3 gathering in Washington.

All the presumed candidates are being invited, but the source was unable to say who has accepted and who hasn't.

"I expect they'll all be there. These meetings have launched candidates in the past," the source said.

This certainly is consistent with what I have read of the candidates who haven't declared yet -- "end of the month" seems to be coming up a lot. Of course, Wes Clark was late last time, but in 2003, everybody else showed up at this thing.