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's speech on Thursday  to the Republican convention offers him a chance to seize the  initiative in an economic debate that polls show is being won  by his Democratic rival, John Kerry.
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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.   "They promised to create 6 million jobs, and guess what? They're about 7 million short," charged Kerry, campaigning in a state that sided with Bush in 2000, but now has unemployment above the national average...
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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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COMPTON, California  - Economic worries dominated the U.S. presidential campaign on Thursday, with White House hopefuls on both coasts touting plans to ease the pain of a recession while President George W. Bush prepared to announce his own fiscal package.
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The debate over his stewardship of the economy is one of the central themes of the campaign.
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Campaigning to win over conservative Democratic voters in two Midwestern swing states, President George W. Bush Tuesday defended his economic record and accused his Democratic
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The economy grew at a faster pace this spring than previously thought, but was at its weakest showing in more than a year, providing ammunition to both candidates in the final weeks of the presidential race.
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As the presidential campaign got underway a year ago, the candidates faced a volatile political environment dominated by the Iraq war, illegal immigration and terrorism. A year later, the campaigns are rewriting their playbooks as it appears that the race may actually be shaped by the economy.
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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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Both candidates have settled on foreign policy as their primary means of distinguishing themselves from each other.
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President Bush dropped in on one of the fall campaign's most contested states for the second Sunday in a row, telling cheering partisans that his economic policies are building prosperity while Democrat John Kerry "wants to tax your jobs."
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In their duel of wits and words, the two &quot;seconds&quot; in the race for the White House sometimes appeared more evenly matched than the two top-of-the-ticket contenders who debated last week.
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President Bush&#39;s White House conference on the economy is sure to attract some of the nation&#39;s political and economic superstars to Washington this week.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As a matter of logic, Mitt Romney would seem to have an edge going into Florida's Republican primary on Tuesday. The economy is the No. 1 issue, and the former Massachusetts governor clearly has the strongest economic portfolio of the Republican presidential candidates, as a megawealthy businessman, turnaround artist of the 2002 Olympics, and a state chief executive.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The battleground for the Democratic presidential nomination is shifting as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama each push proposals to rejuvenate an economy that may be on the brink of recession.
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In the state with the highest unemployment figures, there is skepticism over the candidatesâ economic promises.