Stand by your man: Parties defend candidates after Bush-Kerry debate
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Republican and Democratic leaders each declared victory after the first head-to-head sparring match between President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry.
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Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency.
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Officially the US presidential election is not a war, but Republicans and Democrats have drawn up what looks suspiciously like rules of engagement for the televised debates between George W. Bush and John Kerry.
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It's a voluntary army vs. a professional force. Button-down Republicans vs. street-wise Democrats. It's the ground war of American politics, with allies of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry spending fortunes to find their supporters and &#151; here's the hard, final part &#151; get them to vote.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge: While one party bemoans its choice of candidates, the other has raised little in the way of political debate
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Democrat John Kerry stood his ground with President George W. Bush in their first televised debate, delivering a strong performance that could put him back into the election race after weeks on the ropes, analysts said.
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WASHINGTON : US President George W. Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry hit the campaign trail running, courting voters in battleground states after their hard-fought second debate left the race for the White House in a dead heat.
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ANOKA, Minn.  - Democrat John Kerry on Thursday  challenged Republican President Bush, to weekly debates from  now until the Nov. 2 presidential election.
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President Bush and his Democratic Party challenger Senator John Kerry traded barbs Friday on terrorism and domestic issues. The criticisms are growing sharper with less than two weeks left in the presidential campaign.
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Favorable US public reaction to Senator John Kerry&#39;s performance in the first presidential debate of the current campaign has boosted the Democratic nominee and narrowed his
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Republican front-runners Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney defended their conservative credentials in the face of pointed attacks from their rivals Sunday night in the most aggressive debate to date of the race for the White House.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry drilled behind closed doors ahead of the first of three debates that could decide their hard-fought battle for the White House.
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Why the Bush and Kerry campaigns fight tooth and nail for the endorsement of the Columbus Dispatch
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Sen. John Kerry and his campaign have spent much of the last week accusing President Bush&#39;s campaign of illegally coordinating with a third-party group that has been running
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Rattled by the poor performance of George W Bush in the first US presidential debate, top Republicans yesterday attacked his Democratic rival, claiming that John Kerry would give
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John F. Kerry and his supporters are adopting President Bush's strategy of playing on the public's security concerns as voters get a heavier-than-ever dose of speeches and television ads from both candidates designed to convince them the other ticket would make the world more dangerous.
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US President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will meet on Friday night in their second of three debates, on foreign and domestic issues, following