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No job, no money, no problem -- after personal setbacks, the quirky Alaskan returns to his first love as a long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. minatiMike Gravel is just following his bliss, and for him, that's always been politics. He caught the bug growing up in Springfield, Mass., the child of blue-collar French-Canadian immigrants. At 26, after a few years in the military and then graduation from Columbia, he began thinking about where he could move to get his start as a politician. "I had no money, I had no name and no contacts. So I thought I might as well go some place and start from scratch." He narrowed his choices down to Alaska and New Mexico, and chose Alaska because he didn't like warm weather. on.