Clinton's stump includes frequent references to his financial aid proposal and, of course, the middle class tax cut.

While other candidates speak regularly on a variety of issues, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey focused on what he sees as the campaign's defining issue--national health care.

"I've run the risk of being a single issue candidate and I make no apologies for that," Kerrey said during a campaign stop.

His call for national health care is almost always followed by an emotional talk about his service in Vietnam--where he lost a leg and won a Congressional Medal of Honor.

Kerrey says he hopes to build a country where "the doctor says `where does it hurt' and not, 'how you're going to pay.'"

Sen. Tom Harkin also emphasized his wish to "build" in his emotional stump speeches. He wants to build the nation's infrastructure, to "build a new America."

He says he is "the only real Democrat," a choice and not an echo, and calls for "a candidate who can take on George Bush and whip him."

"We need a clean break with Reagan-Bush trickle down economics," Harkin says.

The most flamboyant stump may be that of former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, who prefers white turtlenecks to dress shirts and grassroots politics to Washington.

Cultivating an image as an "outsider" instead of a "run-of-the-mill" politician, Brown invariably refers to the corrupt political system and mentions his toll free 800 number.