Rhetoric nastier 50 days ahead of US presidential vote
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Fifty days out from the US presidential election the rhetoric becoming nastier between George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry, as the US president's lead appears to be solidifying.
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U.S. News & World Report - In a sign of things to come, a dose of negativity has entered the Democratic presidential campaign.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.  - Can't wait for the U.S.  presidential election? Think you can run a campaign better than  the handlers for George W. Bush or John F. Kerry?
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The electoral shorthand for a  divided America and the perceived nastiness of the U.S.  presidential race generated the defining words and phrases of  the year, a Web site specializing in language said on Friday.
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With exactly a week until the American presidential election, the number of states that are considered marginal appears to be growing.
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The presidential campaign is doing the time warp. Again. Thirty-three years after a decorated Lt. John Kerry both galvanized and outraged veterans and the public with his condemnations
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With the US presidential election just a few weeks away, much political discussion centers on questions of national security and economic affairs.
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Seeking to play down tensions, candidates, and former president, tone down comments.
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A PERSON could go mad trying to follow US election polling. One day George W.Bush is slumping, the next he&#39;s up. One day John Kerry has momentum, the next he&#39;s dead meat.
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With the US presidential election less than two months away, the Republicans have adopted an aggressive new campaigning tactic that not only seems to be working, but has an element of fun to it as well.
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It&#39;s probably important to say this up front: This year&#39;s presidential election shouldn&#39;t be about George W. Bush&#39;s four years in the Texas Air National Guard or John F. Kerry&#39;s four months in Vietnam.
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By Dick Meyer. By Dotty Lynch. By Tom Fenton. With six weeks until Election Day, President Bush went before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday hoping to soften his image stateside.
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With less than six weeks to go before the Nov. 2 presidential election, voting activists said officials still have time to set up a paper trail as a counterweight to an e-voting system they portrayed as wide open to manipulation.
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America&#39;s presidential campaign has moved from the furious to the near farcical, amid a &quot;dirty tricks&quot; controversy over the authenticity of 30-year-old documents dealing with
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - Two weeks before a tight  presidential election, tension among bitterly divided voters is  translating into a barrage of attacks on political targets that  can't talk back -- yard signs.
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The threat of a major terror attack looms large over the first US presidential election since the horrific September 11, 2001, attacks as US voters must choose in less than two months between President George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry.
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A torrent of words from presidential candidates is to be expected, but the latest crowd of White House wannabes has taken the old academic stricture "publish or perish" to heart.