Illinois an afterthought for Bush and Kerry
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Illinois is far from being a &quot;battleground&quot; state in this heated presidential election. But there are signs, literally, that Illinoisans are dug in for their preferred candidates, Republican
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Barack Obama, the Senate candidate from Illinois who made a splash at the Democratic National Convention, may soon be coming to a town near you.
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Democratic strategists must be having night sweats. Coming out of the primaries they figured they&#39;d picked a sure winner in Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.
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AMERICANS WHO watched all three debates probably could have finished some of the lines of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry in St.
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Most state leaders would consider Illinois' Democratic powerbrokers lucky to have two homegrown presidential candidates vying for the top of their party's ticket.
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IN THE run-up to tomorrowâs first presidential debate between George W Bush and Senator John Kerry, I came across an interesting speech the other day.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. - President Bush and rival Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday both began their campaign day in Wisconsin, but on opposite ends of the battleground state.
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By Dick Meyer. By Dotty Lynch. By Bob Schieffer. (CBS/AP) President Bush and Sen. John Kerry took their campaign battle to the Midwest on Wednesday, with Kerry questioning the president&#39;s leadership
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SANTA FE, N.M.  - Democratic challenger Sen. John  Kerry has conceded, President Bush has laid out his plans for a  second term and New Mexico still does not know who won the  election in the sparsely populated state.
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Illinois is not considered a battleground state, but suburban residents are registering to vote in record numbers -- a surge election officials attribute to a boom in new residents, concerns over the war in Iraq and memories of the close presidential
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When President Bush and John Kerry talk about Mideast policy, they say little except to commit themselves to Israel's security. The rivals seem likely to say little more until one of them occupies the White House next year.
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The next big moment in the US presidential campaign comes Friday in St. Louis, Missouri, when President George Bush and Senator John Kerry hold their second of three debates.
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US President George W Bush and his White House rival John Kerry have been racing from one Midwestern battleground state to another as election day looms.
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A year ago, nobody would have predicted that Illinois&#39; next US senator would be either a Chicago state senator who delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National
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In a world in which politicians reasoned rather than bellowed, the Duelfer report about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction would cause both George W. Bush and John Kerry to reconsider basic premises of their foreign policy.
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If President Bush wins re-election, he&#39;ll owe it to voters who regularly go to the polls. If Sen. John Kerry prevails, he&#39;ll have new voters to thank.
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Both Democratic nominee John Kerry and US President George W Bush have campaigned in two key marginal states that could decide the result of the presidential election, just over a fortnight away.