Second terms: big desire, little result
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If Bush wins reelection, history shows he may have to overcome fleeing staff, declining support.
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Presidential candidates cite intent to improve US stature, but retooling policies is complicated.
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Hopes dim as less-interested Democratic Congress arrives next month.
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Once written off as an &quot;accidental president&quot; lacking statesmanship and political gravitas, George W. Bush confounded critics with a powerful showing in his bid for a second White House term.
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While outlining an ambitious and aggressive agenda for his second term yesterday, President Bush didn&#39;t provide new detail that would help bring more definition to the generally hazy plans that he framed during his campaign.
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This is getting monotonous. For the second straight night, a candidate from Boston was looking good after some exit polling, but when the last points/votes were counted, the opponent had the plurality.
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At their national convention, Republicans were short on specifics on how to pay for an economic agenda in a second Bush administration. One reason is that President Bush could end up having to back a tax increase, just as his father did.
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FOR GEORGE W. BUSH, as for any president seeking a second term, the party&#39;s convention presents a different, and in many ways more difficult, task than that facing his opponent.
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As Republicans gather in New York, the lackluster job market must dishearten President Bush. He had hoped that a strong economic recovery would favor his re-election, and in some ways, he&#39;s gotten his wish.
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President overshadowed by race to choose successor attempts to reassert primacy
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He pushes the idea of private accounts, but the initiative may be the hardest of his second term.
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President Bush is raising the bar on expectations, with a second-term agenda to transform the United States and the world. But early reviews on his evolving legacy are as mixed as the nation is divided politically.
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George W. Bush was elected to a second term, but that was only one of his victories. He was victorious over the terrorists in Iraq.
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SECOND-TERM GOALS: President Bush wants to revamp Social Security, overhaul the tax code, improve education, fight education, battle AIDS and poverty, while waging war in Iraq and battling terrorists.
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CLOUDED HOPES: An Associated Press poll finds that six in 10 Americans feel hopeful about President Bush's second term, but the hope is clouded by anxiety over when the bloodshed in Iraq will end.
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From his domestic policy platter, President Bush chose to serve dessert before the main course. Having now won a second term, he may find it increasingly difficult to deliver on the meatier stuff, even with the political capital he is claiming and larger GOP majorities in the House and Senate.
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If President Bush defeats Democrat  John Kerry on Nov. 2, Republicans expect many new faces in a  second-term Bush Cabinet.