Presidential rivals tout economic credentials
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GREENWOOD, South Carolina  - U.S. presidential candidates competed on Tuesday to look strong on the economy after an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and shaky markets worldwide exacerbated fears of a U.S. recession.
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President Bush and Sen. John Kerry feuded Thursday over the nation's economy, with the Republican incumbent boasting about the impact of his "well-timed tax cuts" and his Democratic rival bemoaning a new report of rising poverty.
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President Bush and Democratic rival  John Kerry traded blows over jobs and security on Friday as  they began a final two-month election sprint, with Bush touting  his economic record and Kerry launching a fierce counter-attack  on Republicans who "can't tell the truth."
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Could differences in economic performance among states determine how the election shakes out? The answer is a definite maybe.
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The economy is issue one in job-needy Michigan, where rivals in next week's Republican primary seek support from some of the very voters who are feeling threatened by international trade agreements the presidential contenders embrace.
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President Bush says his economic plans will expand opportunities for small businesses and regular people, while challenger John Kerry's proposals will only expand the government.
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The economy grew at a faster pace this spring than previously thought, but it was at its weakest in more than a year, providing ammunition to both candidates in the final weeks of the presidential race.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama and his challenger, Hillary Clinton, are both zeroing in on the economy as the campaign moves to big industrial states ravaged by job losses and foreclosures.
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Both parties have similar kinds of candidates. Meet the Charismatic, the Practicals, and the Base-Wooers.
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The race for president has a hot new issue: what to do about the economy's credit crunch. And the candidates, as usual, do not agree.
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The US economy grew at a faster pace this spring than previously thought, but was at its weakest level in more than a year, providing ammunition to both candidates in the final weeks of the presidential race.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted to talk about the economy. A voter in the audience wanted to talk marriage.
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MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina  - Republican presidential candidates said on Thursday the U.S. economy was going through a difficult slowdown but an election-year recession could be avoided with the right mix of policies.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Sen. John Kerry turns to economic issues Wednesday, while President Bush pursues an end game that includes persistent appeals for Democratic votes and a rarely used weapon in this bruising campaign - a positive commercial.
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AKRON, Ohio - President Bush and John Kerry battled over the economy and jobs in a small corner of the campaign's most fiercely contested state Saturday as polls showed a post-convention surge for the Republican in the White House.    With little more than eight weeks remaining to Election Day, a Newsweek survey gave the president a lead of 52-41 over Kerry, with independent Ralph Nader at 3 percent...
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Despite campaign barbs, he and Bush share key positions.
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A concentrated burst of advertising is putting the candidatesâ strategies out in the open and is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties.