School proposals help define candidates for war-fixated voters
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The Oregon mother of two watched with despair as budget cuts forced schools around the state to lay off teachers and close early. She&#39;s an active volunteer who helped raise $17,000 in private money to landscape a ...
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Militants are facing a new postelection dynamic - a population that has endorsed the political process.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are offering U.S. voters and the world two starkly different views on Iraq. The incumbent tells skeptical foreign leaders the war is part of a global fight on terror and "there is no safety in looking away." The challenger wants allies to help find a way out.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- A young man in a Saudi cafe worries that Iraq's elections could lead to civil war. On the banks of the Nile, a student strolling with his girlfriend dismisses the polls as an American sham. Yemeni students, chewing khat leaves, a mild stimulant, express hope that the United States will pressure other tyrannical regimes to change.
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With the presidential election four months away, candidates are working to seduce alienated and disadvantaged ethnic populations.
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Anti-war Democrats bailed in droves. Teachers unions left over vouchers. Men are drawn to his challenger, and women aren't all that crazy about the incumbent, either.
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Party officials in Ohio plan to place thousands of recruits at polling places on Nov. 2 to challenge voters' qualifications.
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The proposal to change the original Iraq resolution is a long-shot, but Democrats may be more interested in stockpiling ammunition against Republicans than actually changing policy
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PITTSBURGH _ To the daunting challenges facing Republicans in the 2006 midterm elections, add another: angry "values voters" who feel used and abandoned. "We put these people in power in 2004," said Sue Means, a home-school activist from suburban Pittsburgh. "I really expected more.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- Health experts are trying to move the nation's battle of the bulge to an important new front: the schools.
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U.S. college students are already  stressed about getting good grades and a decent job, but this  year there is added pressure: the presidential campaigns want  them to help decide the country's political future.
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The public is a bit fickle about its schools, with mixed or even contradictory views about testing, vouchers and other education topics, a poll finds.
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Candidates are confronting an electorate deeply unsettled about the United Statesâ ability to control its own destiny.
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A close inspection of candidatesâ wares offers the prospect of a peek into their characters and hoped-for constituencies.
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From North Carolina to South Dakota, candidates vie to be of the people, not of Washington.
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Sure, the presidential candidates have their talking points on taxes, their policies on poverty, their white papers on war. But look beyond those top-tier issues and voters can find the eclectic ideas that reflect candidates' particular passions, their attention to the arcane, sometimes their outsized expectations.
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Presidential hopefuls show their antiwar stripes, but differ on how to extricate the US from Iraq.