Kerry scores over Bush in first debate
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Democratic challenger John Kerry held his own in the first nationally televised debate with President George W. Bush on Thursday as he carpet-bombed the latter&#39;s approach on Iraq and declared: &quot;I can do a better job.
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US President George Bush and Sen. John Kerry gave Americans pretty much what the public expected in the first presidential debate.
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On Thursday night, President Bush and Senator John Kerry meet in their first debate on foreign policy.
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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.
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President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry give voters their first chance to size up the two White House candidates side by side when they square off in debate on Thursday.
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President George W. Bush heads into the first presidential campaign debate with an eight- percentage-point lead over his Democratic rival John Kerry among likely voters, a poll released Monday showed.
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Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry trailed behind US President George W. Bush in the latest polls, raising the stakes for their first debate two days before that face-to-face confrontation.
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The first presidential debate and its focus on foreign policy and security gives both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry opportunities to dig into each other's record and patch their own weaknesses on Iraq.
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Two candidates, two very different tasks for the first presidential debate. John Kerry has to convince voters they should throw President Bush out of office for his actions in Iraq and at home, all the while looking and acting like a solid commander in chief himself. Bush, in office and in the lead, needs a no-mistakes performance that won't rock the election boat.
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Iraq dominated the first debate between President Bush and Democratic challenger John F. Kerry here on Thursday night, and rarely have the differences between the
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President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry made few major factual errors in their first debate, although on occasion they stretched the truth or left out inconvenient facts -- or may have confused viewers as they spoke in policy shorthand.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry stepped up attacks over each other on Iraq on Friday, one day after their first face-to-face debate that many Americans thought Kerry won.
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IN THE second presidential debate George Bush performed far better than he had in the first debate. This, however, doesn&#39;t mean the debate was a draw.
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Miami - US President George W Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry will stare each other down on Thursday in their first presidential debate, a high-stakes political prize-fight that could decide their vicious battle for the White House.
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Coral Gables, Fla. -- Democrat John Kerry, sliding behind President Bush in the polls, must deliver a strong primetime performance in Thursday&#39;s first presidential debate to keep his campaign competitive in
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President George W. Bush and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry vaulted into the home stretch of the race for the White House by trading blows on taxes, gun control, abortion and jobs, striving in their final debate to cement impressions in voters&#39; minds.
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President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry square off in a crucial debate on Thursday that will give voters their first chance to size up the two White House candidates side by side.