Sen. Kerry Nearly Matches Bush's Fund-Raising
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Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry nearly caught up to President Bush's record-breaking fund-raising efforts by taking in &#36;233.5 million, his campaign said on Friday, just behind the incumbent's &#36;242 million.
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President Bush's record campaign fund raising left him with millions of dollars to spare, allowing him to donate &#36;11 million to the Republican Party and even send a few checks to the White House Historical Association.
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The first verbal showdown between President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, drew nearly 63 million viewers across seven broadcast and cable outlets, an increase of more than 26% over the turnout for the first presidential debate of the 2000 campaign.
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ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI - Sen. John Kerry edged slightly ahead of President George Bush in Friday&#39;s presidential debate, polls suggested, but analysts dismissed the lead as too small to matter.
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Under friendly fire, Sen. John Kerry likely will donate a substantial portion of his excess presidential campaign cash to help elect Democratic candidates in 2005 and 2006, advisers said Thursday.
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Just when he was reeling from weeks of attacks from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John Kerry has been handed an issue that he can use to hammer President Bush.
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Not in a generation has a presidential election been so close for so long. Now, as President Bush is pulling a bit ahead of Sen. John Kerry, every step â-nd misstep
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Interest groups that can urge the public to vote for or against candidates have spent at least &#36;25 million on the presidential race since Labor Day, with John Kerry's supporters outspending Bush's by more than 4-to-1.
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A group running ads accusing John Kerry of exaggerating his decorated Vietnam War service record is nearing &#36;7 million in contributions, thanks in part to several Republican donors.
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President Bush darted across the country Friday to raise cash for a pair of political candidates, part of a stepped-up fundraising pace aimed at helping the GOP retain its majority in Congress.
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John Dickerson: Both candidates scored, but Kerry made greater strides
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John Kerry cut his campaign spending sharply last month in an effort to stretch &#36;75 million in government funding, but he still started September with several million less than President Bush.
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Sen. John Kerry, who has &#36;45 million left from his record-breaking Democratic campaign, hinted on Tuesday that he may try again for the presidency.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, buoyed by a strong showing in his televised debate with George W. Bush, has recaptured a small lead in their White House race, a Newsweek poll showed.
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More than two dozen top fund-raisers for President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry are current or former senior managers of companies punished for trading with Iran or Saddam Hussein's Iraq &#151; including the chairman of Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Committee and Kerry's fund-raising chairman.
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The campaign of Democrat John F. Kerry has earmarked $6 million for Democratic committees that support congressional candidates from the sizable surplus left over from the privately funded phase of his presidential campaign.
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Senator John Kerry exaggerates the potential gains from embryonic stem cell research, and President Bush understates the degree to which he has prevented such research.