Bush Labors to Shift Focus of Election
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An unpopular war and 1.1 million lost jobs is enough to kill a presidency, so President Bush tried Thursday night to make the election about something else: himself and his leadership style.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - Just a few weeks ago, Sen. John Kerry&#39;s aides were saying the homestretch of his bid to oust President Bush would focus on the economy, health care and other domestic issues.
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Proclaiming &quot;voters of America have set the direction of the nation for the next four years,&quot; President Bush yesterday outlined a second-term agenda that includes fighting the
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President Bush has been dogged by a spate of bad news in the final days of the presidential campaign but it is unclear whether that will sway enough voters to affect the election outcome.
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On the defensive over job losses and health care woes, President Bush sought Wednesday night to make the campaign a referendum on his rival &#151; casting Democratic Sen. John Kerry as out of the mainstream, a liberal whose rhetoric doesn't match his record.
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Bush wants to paint domestic differences as a choice in expanding government, while Kerry will focus on his plans and Bush&#39;s record.
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President Bush has signaled that he intends to hit the ground running with an aggressive second-term agenda by replacing a majority of his first-term Cabinet with leaders more in tune with his conservative line of thinking.
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A packed calendar awaits President Bush after his vacation in Texas: filling a gaping hole in his Cabinet, preparing his inaugural and State of the Union speeches, finalizing a new budget, keeping close watch on the upcoming elections in Iraq and promoting his second-term agenda.
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President Bush sought to enter the campaign&#39;s final week with voter attention focused on the war on terrorism - but the news out of Iraq in recent days was not what he had in mind.
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President Bush is driving his re-election campaign toward next week&#39;s finish line, with a series of more optimistic speeches that Republicans hope will rise above some of the hostility of this campaign season.
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As President George W. Bush celebrated his re-election with his campaign workers in Washington Wednesday, he also highlighted his second-term agenda: &quot;We&#39;ll continue our economic progress.
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President Bush is campaigning almost non-stop in the days leading up to next Tuesday&#39;s election, seeking to energize members of his Republican Party while appealing to Democrats who may not
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Luminaries from business, politics and the arts weigh in on what George W. Bush should do in his second term
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US President George W. Bush kicked off an aggressive week-long campaign swing through nine key states, set to pause only briefly to be anointed his party's champion in New York City.
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President George W. Bush sought to put tax reform at the center of the US presidential election debate as the Democrats try to exploit weaknesses in the government's economic record.
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President Bush gave a preview of his second term on Thursday, telling reporters that, having cut his &quot;political eye teeth,&quot; he was eager to work with Democrats to begin carrying out the changes he has been promising.
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President George W Bush&#39;s record serving in the National Guard during the Vietnam War became the focus of the increasingly heated election campaign yesterday.