Campaign 2004: Month-by-Month
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President Bush&#39;s approval rating stands at 56 percent. Job losses since he took office reach 2.2 million. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.
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Labor Day is a time to fire up the barbecue pit and hang out at the beach for the last official rite of summer. It&#39;s also the day, every four years, when the presidential candidates ramp up their campaigns for the homestretch to Election Day.
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Now, after a year of political jousting, six months of primary campaigning and two full weeks of partisan conventioneering - now, the presidential race really begins.
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TITLES: Clinton ad: "Ideas." Obama ad: "Anything Radio."
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A few rules to follow this election season - from the candidates' point of view.
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With less that a month and a half to go until Election Day, things seem to be taking shape. What is driving the most recent events?
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After months of grand rhetoric, endless fundraising and heavy campaigning, the 2008 presidential race kicks into even higher gear this week at the start of a four-month sprint to the first votes.
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Propelled by a boom in political campaign budgets, ad spending in the major media tracked by Nielsen Media Research rose 6.4 percent during the first half of 2004, according to estimates released Tuesday by Nielsen&#39;s Monitor-Plus unit. The automotive ...
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President Bush's campaign spent &#36;45.8 million in July, the bulk of it on advertising, but he still had about &#36;32.5 million left to spend before he accepts his party's nomination next month, according to a filing released on Friday.
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And other revelations from Bob Shrum's No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner. An exclusive excerpt
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John Kerry shelled out &#36;80 million over five months to plaster television screens with campaign ads trumpeting his biography and priorities. So what did all that money get him? An even race.
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There&#39;s baseball&#39;s postseason, basketball&#39;s preseason, boxing&#39;s never-ending season, and the NFL in full swing. Every fourth year, there&#39;s a presidential race coming down the homestretch too.
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John Kerry's campaign boosts spending on online ads in the final month of the election season, trying to maintain the momentum he gained from the first debate. It's surprising the campaigns haven't spent more online, experts say. By Louise Witt.
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While there has been more Internet advertising activity in this year's presidential race than in the past, the money spent on Web ads still pales in comparison to that allocated for TV commercials, the first-ever study of online political ads found.    The study, released Monday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, said President Bush, Democrat John Kerry, their political parties and allied independent groups spent $2.6 million to post banner ads on Web sites from January through August...
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The House campaign strategists for both major parties undoubtedly are already dissecting the results of this yearÃ¢ÂÂs elections to determine their top districts to target for the 2008 campaign. And as they do, they surely will look closely at districts that favored their partyÃ¢ÂÂs nominee for president in 2004 but this year favored the other party for the House.
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House and Senate candidates have spent at least &#36;487 million this election cycle, &#36;130 million more than congressional candidates had poured in by this point in the 2002 races.
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A selection of the best images from the last twelve months