Kerry's chances against Bush better than '50-50': Clinton

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former president Bill W. Clinton gave Democratic Senator John Kerry a more than "50-50" chance of beating President George Bush in the November 2 election, saying the Massachusetts candidate has been running a good campaign.

"I think we have got a better than 50-50 chance to win," Clinton, who has been promoting his recently published memoirs "My Life," told cable news channel MSNBC.

"First of all, he's not laying low," the former two-term Democratic president said. "He's doing exactly what he should be doing."

"But if you're not president you can't be in the news every day," Clinton said.

"And you can't just be a commentator on what the incumbent does. It's just not human. It's not natural. So, I think John Kerry is marching to the beat of his own drummer," he added.

Clinton said he and his wife Hillary, a New York senator believed to have her own presidential aspirations, will help Kerry's campaign against Bush, a Republican.

"She made a decision not to run. Because she told people in New York she would fill (her six-year) term," Clinton said of his wife, without excluding the possibility that she could run in the 2008 election.
"I think John Kerry will be a good president," Clinton said. "I think the American people will conclude that.

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