Presidential campaign turns even nastier
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SPRING GREEN, United States : The US presidential race hit a new low in nastiness with images of Osama bin Laden and epithets such as &quot;despicable&quot; and &quot;un-American&quot; bombarding voters before a crucial series of televised debates.
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Bush and Kerry have had to adjust their games in light of the alerts, and the match has grown nastier
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The generally ho-hum race to succeed Gov. Jeb Bush has turned caustic in the final stretch before the primary.
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US presidential campaign tensions hit a new peak when Democratic contender John Kerry accused his Republican rival President George W. Bush of using a front group to discredit his Vietnam war record.
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Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee was left red-faced Monday as his attack on a leading rival in the White House race lurched into farce days before the nominating battle starts.
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WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain - who knows a bit about nasty politics - said the 2004 race for the White House is the worst he&#39;s ever seen.
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As a Canadian observing the increasingly vitriolic presidential election campaign being waged in the United States, I am struck by how much of the rhetoric is devoted to the subject of death, by both candidates.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The American election may be taking centre-stage, but on the other side of the Atlantic there&#39;s another neck-and-neck Presidential race underway, and this campaign is so dirty and bruising it makes the US poll seem rather genteel.
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The 2008 Democratic presidential race quickly turned nasty Wednesday, as Hillary Clinton's camp laid into rising star rival Barack Obama, even as he savored a million-dollar Hollywood debut.
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The spectral image that has haunted this presidential campaign finally surfaced last weekend on television with an attack ad of his own.
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The candidates offered critiques of the opposition party, perhaps signaling a new dynamic in the presidential race.
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For presidential candidates, the post-Watergate system of financing campaigns with public money has become the great divide.
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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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Just when you thought press coverage of the presidential race couldn&#39;t get any dirtier and uglier, a media monolith turns Decision 2004 into a mud-slinging, sh*t-smearing partisan mission.
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A series of increasingly brazen attacks have deepened the sense of growing mayhem as the January elections approach.
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Campaign promises have changed little in the run-up to the presidential election, but the rhetoric has intensified.
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The presidential race has become a teeth-gnashing affair for many Americans, no matter if they have a strong preference and pray that it will be realized, or if they resemble the Colorado voter who blanched the other day when we expressed surprise that