Political Memo: Campaign Conflicts Are Not Over Core Goals, but How to Get There
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There is more consensus than disagreement in the parties over tax, health and Iraq proposals, though the presidential candidates do disagree over means, priorities and each otherâs sincerity.
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Several hot-button topics - stem-cell research, gay marriage, abortion, and gun rights - remain at the edge of the campaign.
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Pocketbook issues traditionally trump other concerns in national elections. But foreign policy is getting equal time this year. For President Bush, national security is the overriding campaign issue.
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Capturing the immigration debate in political ads this campaign season &#151; without upsetting Hispanics &#151; is proving tricky for the parties and candidates.
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Okay, wonks: Think you know how the political game works?
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Los Angeles Times - They lost at politics at an early age. Since then, they've rarely made the same campaign mistakes twice.
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Inside the battle for a critical chunk of votes
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From North Carolina to South Dakota, candidates vie to be of the people, not of Washington.
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The US presidential election campaign has proved so contentious that reuniting politically-divided Americans could prove beyond whoever wins the White House.
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With the race for the White House in full swing, here are some tips for handling political opinions in the office.
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The Trail | Campaign refocuses after Tuesday's pummeling raises new questions about strategy.
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Two old sayings are colliding in the presidential campaign, and there's some truth to both of them. Politics is dirty. Midwesterners are nice.
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For months it was all the rage on the campaign trail. Day after day, stop after stop, the war was the focus of all things presidential. Now it's little more than a distant echo in most stump speeches. Democrats are generally saying little more than, "We should get out as soon as we can." Republicans hard mention it.
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The Democratic presidential candidates have moved from the politics of piling on to the politics of unity.
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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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The campaign fundraising figures reported by individual House and Senate candidates do not tell a complete or necessarily accurate story of the levels of campaign spending in their races. That is because outside playersÃ¢ÂÂ spending also is a major factor in virtually all of the most competitive races Ã¢ÂÂ including the money put in by the national partiesÃ¢ÂÂ campaign committees.
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Campaign events for Sens. Clinton and Obama bring out some of the area's top political leaders.