Mar. 3, Feature - As 4 states get ready for Tuesday's presidential primary, some other interesting races are going on.

One is of former Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. He could loose the Ohio Congressional seat that he's held since 1996. For his west Cleveland district, he's facing 4 Democratic challengers.

The race become a high stakes campaign with candidates raising nearly two million dollars for a Congressional seat in an economically depressed portion Ohio where an estimated 38,000 jobs have left the area in recent years as factories have shut and moved offshore.

One of those candidates is Rosemary Palmer. Her son died in Iraq in 2005. She blames Kucinich for not doing more to end the war in Iraq. She blames him for not voting with the Democrats for a troop withdrawal measure, because it didn't cut war funding. Palmer says the small steps are sometimes the important steps.

Another Kucinich opponent, probably his toughest challenger is Joe Cimperman, a Cleveland City Council member. He blames many of Cleveland's economic woes on Kucinich.

At a Bay Ridge annual Democratic Party St. Patrick's fundraiser, Cimperman says Kucinich has forgotten about Cleveland.

"I really feel we have someone representing us in Washington who can put a full time job into it. This endless running for President has really hurt this region."

In addition to the Presidential runs, Cimperman cites Kucinich's close ties to Hollywood, like such stars as Bonnie Raitt and Viggo Mortenson.

Kucinich and his wife Elizabeth, attended the same community gathering. Kucinich admits to missing Congressional votes because of his Presidential campaign. His record dropped from being present at 95 percent of votes to 88 percent. But he says, he's proven his record.

"The war cost families in my district $16,000 each family…. The war is a Cleveland issue and I've led the issue in Washington in challenging the war. You know, I'm proud of the service I've given to this community and I'm hopeful the people of the tenth district are going to recognize that when they've needed me, I've been there."

The unprecedented cost of this campaign, causing Kucinich to spend ten times more than he's ever spent on a Congressional race, has left room for criticism. Cimperman criticizes Kucinich for raising much of the $750,000 Kucinich has raised in the past six weeks from people outside Ohio. Kucinich says he had to go outside Ohio to keep up with what has become the most expensive Congressional campaign Kucinich has ever had to run by ten times.

Kucinich criticizes Cimperman, who doesn't live in the district he's running for, has also raised nearly three quarters of a million dollars. Most of Cimperman'a money, who sits on the real estate planning board on the City Council, has come from Cleveland down town real estate developers. Kucinich says these business interests will dictate a Cimperman legislative agenda.

The local paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer endorsed Cimperman, and have been promoting his candidacy.

But voters will head to the polls Tuesday, and although many people seem to be supporting Kucinich, like Rachel Pavlosky

"He's fought for the people in this city. He's got a lot of good things going for him, he's a fighter.

Some are frustrated, frustrated with his Presidential run, frustrated with a suffering economy, frustrated with the late night TV jokes about their US Representative.

Voter Fred Crow:

"I don't think he has any credibility in the party anymore. I don't believe he can get anything done. And he pretty much votes 95 percent, and I appreciate what he's done in the past but these runs for the Presidency were bordering on lunacy. I'm through with him. I respect what he believes in, but he's got a job here."

But Kucinich does have name recognition, and many voters were unable to name a candidate other than Kucinich.