Morality Keyes&#39; campaign focus
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Senate candidate says voters don&#39;t need to leave their faith outside the voting booth. BY LEE ENOKIAN. CHICAGO | Republican Alan Keyes and Democrat Barack Obama have squared off in one of the most contentious Senate races in the nation.
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President Bush is embracing troublesome topics that should be hurting him and fighting for states that should be tilting away from him in a campaign that has focused so far on character rather than issues.
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As one of the Bush campaign&#39;s congressional attack dogs, Sen. Orrin Hatch frequently recites this charge during interviews on national television: &quot;Senator Kerry&#39;s been in
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As in war, there&#39;s plenty of fog and smoke on the political battlefield that makes it hard to see what&#39;s going on. But there is one place in particular that you can go and cut through the competing messages and find a least a kernel of truth.
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Lately it seems all the leading presidential candidates are discussing their religious and moral beliefs &#151; even when they'd rather not. Indeed, seven years after George W. Bush won the presidency in part with a direct appeal to conservative religious voters &#151; even saying during a debate that Jesus Christ was his favorite philosopher &#151; the personal faith of candidates has become a very public part of the presidential campaign.
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It&#39;s downright strange that the US presidential election campaign - easily the most important in decades â-as come to focus on what happened in a faraway boat during the course of a few minutes more than 30 years ago.
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The war in Iraq; jobs and the economy; terrorism. For voters nationwide, those issues seem sure to determine the outcome on Election Day. But in several critical swing states, the conservative push to amend state constitutions and ban gay marriage is giving delegates and party officials a way to lure a group of voters &#151; especially traditional churchgoers &#151; who could tip these states to President Bush.
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For Saturday's crucial primary, the GOP candidates are busy reframing the issues and shoring up their conservative credentials
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Conservative &quot;moral values&quot; played an unexpectedly decisive role in President George W. Bush's victory in the US presidential election, experts say, and the victors look set to reward opponents of gay marriage and abortion.
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The Trail | Campaign refocuses after Tuesday's pummeling raises new questions about strategy.
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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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Alan Keyes blamed the media and fellow Republicans on Thursday for his lopsided loss to Democrat Barack Obama in the US Senate race in Illinois.
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Presidential campaigns are about more than just speeches, rallies and the horse race.
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On his first campaign trip into Illinois farm country, Republican Senate candidate Alan Keyes said Thursday he no longer favors abolishing the U.S. Agriculture Department.
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Voters have plenty of resources to find out who&#39;s leading the latest polls, President Bush or Senator John Kerry, or which states are leaning blue or red.
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This country has seen a massive upsurge in morality since Election Day, and nowhere is this more evident than in the commercial failure of the &quot;Grand Theft Auto&quot; games.
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Maryland conservative commentator Alan Keyes told voters to expect a series of verbal showdowns against Democratic nominee Barack Obama after accepting Illinois Republicans&#39; US Senate nomination at a rally Aug. 8 in Arlington Heights.