Upper Midwest Crucial to Kerry's Hopes
38908
In 2000, political pundits summed up the race in three words: Florida, Florida, Florida. Here's three words to consider this fall: Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. President Bush is targeting their combined 27 electoral votes &#151; the same total as Florida, where a bitterly contested recount settled the last election.
683034
When John Kerry came to the Packers&#39; home town for a campaign appearance last week, no one was happier to see him than the owners of the local television stations.
433250
The wrong half of Europe is for Kerry. If the presidential election still looks open in America itself - the polls show the two candidates continually overtaking each other - Senator John Kerry is agreed to be ...
314447
TONY EASTLEY: To the election in the United States, where Democrat John Kerry is enjoying the afterglow of his strong performance in the first debate with President Bush.
175727
The presidential candidates and their running mates fanned out across the Midwest with Labor Day messages promising job creation, appealing for votes in the territory pivotal to winning November's election.    President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were heading to three states between them Monday; Democratic candidate John Kerry and running mate John Edwards were venturing to six...
217357
US President George W Bush and his White House rival John Kerry have been racing from one Midwestern battleground state to another as election day looms.
743179
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa, with a combined 27 electoral votes, have the potential to be pivotal in this election.
546424
NASHUA, NH -- John Kerry&#39;s campaign hopes some of the Boston Red Sox&#39;s come-from-behind magic will rub off on their candidate.
186508
The stops on John Kerry's cross-country campaign trip are hardly Democratic bastions. So much so, that on Wednesday he and President Bush campaigned just a few blocks from each other in this Iowa city.
109946
Sen. John Kerry has opened narrow leads in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and a handful of other battleground state polls since accepting the Democratic nomination, increasing pressure on President Bush to regain lost ground at the Republican National Convention.
145407
US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will switch to macho politics when he makes an atypical hunting trip to rural Ohio in a bid to woo traditionalist male voters, while President George W. Bush courts Catholics in Pennsylvania less than two week before election day.
641893
By John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 9--The states of the industrial Midwest can tilt the 2008 presidential race to their advantage if they unite for the first time behind what a Brookings Institution author calls a common political agenda and near-identical industrial heritage.
107943
President Bush (website - news - bio) and Sen. John Kerry (website - news - bio) plan to start the day Friday in crucial Midwest swing states, then head to opposite sides of the US after
260790
Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., greets the choir after speaking during Sunday Services at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Dayton, Ohio Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004.
563161
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry both visit Iowa today in a battle for the state's seven crucial electors. Polls have shown the candidates neck-in-neck in that state. Bush will also campaign in Minnesota and Wisconsin, while Kerry will travel to Pennsylvania and Ohio.
211600
Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry has won plaudits abroad for his promises to fight global warming but could find his hands tied at home if he wins next month's U.S. elections.
613714
He visits Wilkes-Barre, says foe plans big cuts; Bush camp calls the attack misleading. By Joe McDermott. WILKES-BARRE | Democrat John Kerry hit on characteristic themes and scares Tuesday - including the