The campaign ground war in Ohio: shoe leather and palm pilots
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If there's one thing that both Republicans and Democrats agree on this year, it's that they have never seen a grassroots presidential campaign as intense as this one.
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WASHINGTON - An Ohio candidate in a long-shot bid to unseat a 16-term House veteran has an unusual approach in deciding how to spend his campaign. He asks Web surfers: Should he sleep in? Prepare for his debate? Campaign door to door?   "It's all about listening to the people," Democrat Jeff Seemann said from a candidate forum in Alliance, Ohio, that Internet voters said he should attend...
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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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The battle for the U.S. presidency  can be seen as a prize fight gone wild -- one with campaign  stand-ins jumping into the ring to throw punches.
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WASHINGTON _ A presidential candidate's macaca moment is coming. Count on it.  When George Allen, a Virginia Republican running for re-election last year to the U.S.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Mike Pesca talks with voters in the swing state of Ohio, where both Sen. John Kerry and President Bush have campaigned hard this week to woo voters.
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PRESIDENT (20) &#151; The new Florida. The race for the presidency hinged on Ohio's 20 electoral votes as officials began counting thousands of absentee and provisional ballots. Bush enjoyed a slight lead over Kerry.
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GRUNDY CENTER, Iowa -- Two states guard the campaign trail as though they own it. Their influence on national politics is wildly disproportionate to their modest populations. Neither has anything that could be called a large city, or a slum, or a sprawling suburb. Both are dotted with small towns...
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The mini-drama that played itself out Wednesday morning over Ohio&#39;s vote was eerily reminiscent of the turmoil in Florida that greeted the nation four years ago.
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Comparing the Administration's war rationale to the facts on the ground
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At least one Election Day prediction turned out to be right: Ohio was the king of the swing states. Correctly forecasting which way the Buckeye State would turn &#151; and why &#151; was another matter.
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With the presidential election four months away, candidates are working to seduce alienated and disadvantaged ethnic populations.
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Candidates from both parties are getting help from their family members on the presidential campaign trail. A sampling:
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A Âwhat went wrong?Â documentary that succinctly and ruthlessly dissects the battle for Ohio in the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election.
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BOARDMAN, Ohio  - For Democratic challenger John  Kerry, the presidential race has come down to three words --  focus, focus, focus. Even a hunting trip on Thursday was more  about votes than geese.
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DES MOINES -- In a land of corn and caucuses, where harvests are measured by bushels and buzz, the presidential campaigns march through the seasons in a curious rite of persuasion. First comes biography, then policy and, finally, a political pitch calibrated to the shifting climate.
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In such a tight race, the game is about turning out your supporters. TIME goes inside the ground war