Bush, Kerry Return to Trail, Take Different Tacks
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More than changing the dynamic of a race that has tightened in the past 10 days, Friday's debate served to set up Wednesday's encounter as an opportunity to provide momentum to one of the candidates going into the final weeks of the election.
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President Bush and John Kerry switched places Sunday, the president campaigning in New Mexico where Kerry was the day before and the Democratic senator taking Bush's place in Florida.
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President Bush has been solidifying his gains in states that once were dead heats, forcing both parties' campaigns to alter strategies as the electoral battleground shrinks. Democrat John Kerry is struggling to stay afloat in some hotly contested states, including Missouri, Wisconsin and Ohio, where polls show Bush pulling ahead.
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President Bush and Democratic  challenger John Kerry paused their debate preparations on  Monday to question each other's credibility and renew a running  battle on Iraq, with Bush saying Kerry changed positions so  often he could debate himself.
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But in the wake of last week's debate, Kerry seems to be gaining new traction with his calls for a fresh start.
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, fresh from a campaign revamp and slipping in the polls, tried to focus on the economy on Monday but instead offered new criticism of the Iraq war, while President Bush touted his tax reform.
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With a successful kickoff debate, Sen. John Kerry managed to change the dynamic of the presidential campaign and at least temporarily put President George W. Bush on the defensive.
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Democrat John Kerry and President Bush delivered fresh criticisms Friday as they emerged from a campaign debate that, for the first time in weeks, put Bush as much on the political defensive as Kerry.
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(CBS/AP) President Bush and Sen. John Kerry meet Friday in a debate rematch as a new poll shows a shift toward the Democratic challenger and amid more troubling news on Iraq.
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While neither party dominated the other in the duel between Senator John Kerry and US President George Bush in St. Louis, Bush appeared more energetic and focused in comparison to the pervious debates.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. - President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry entered the final week of their campaigns Tuesday much as they began them: with profoundly different claims about the war in Iraq, the state
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts now have debated three times in the 2004 presidential campaign.
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President Bush&#39;s postconvention bounce in state and national polls has left Democratic challenger John F. Kerry with a smaller battlefield upon
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Democratic challenger John Kerry roared back to the campaign trail, piling more scorn on President George W. Bush's Iraq policy, as he shot for a comeback in the race for the White House.
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In a scramble for late-breaking votes, Bush and Kerry each highlight risks of putting the other at the nation's helm.
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President George W. Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry traded blows on key domestic issues and criss-crossed battleground states hoping to sway undecided voters as the campaign clock ticks down.
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President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry are shifting their campaign strategies after their first debate. By DAN BALZ. A newly energized battle for the White House heads into a crucial two-week period with Sen.