Mirth and missteps enliven 2008 White House race
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From the steamy, to the bizarre, and the downright embarrassing, the marathon grind of the 2008 White House campaign is mercifully, rich with missteps, mirth and melodies.
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In a presidential race not lacking for pundits, at least one person is trying to keep his mouth shut: the president himself.
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Al Gore's stiff jokes are gone now, replaced by recount jokes. The cautious campaigner of 2000 is gone, too, replaced by a fire-breathing Bush basher.
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The US presidential frontrunners have lost points after blundering into the baseball world.
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Barack Obama, struggling to gain  ground on rival Hillary Clinton in the 2008 White House race,  faces a delicate dilemma in trying to bring down the Democratic  front-runner without spoiling his upbeat image.
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Newt Gingrich, who must wake up each day spewing ideas and dispensing advice, yesterday offered a gloomy prognosis of his party's chances of winning the White House in 2008 and played down his own prospects of running.
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The Associated Press asked the presidential candidates to identify misconceptions about them.
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Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.
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Democratic voters have conflicted feelings about the Clinton White House years. How they judge that era â politically as well as emotionally â may well decide the race for the partyâs presidential nomination.
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Once known for linguistic stumbles, the president has honed a mix of conviction, gravitas, and twang.
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A compressed, chaotic and changeable election calendar is forcing campaign managers in the frenetic 2008 White House chase to tear up decades of battle-tested political war plans.
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Caucus results shake up the race for the White House in both parties.
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The wives of five 2008 presidential hopefuls on Tuesday traded tales of juggling their kids, marriages and self-esteem in the maelstrom of a national campaign.
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With the 2008 campaign just months old, the G.O.P. candidate has already made some memorable misstatements
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Two Fools duel over the candidates' economic policies.
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The 2008 White House race has  groundbreaking candidates, record-shattering spending and  crowded debates, but so far it lacks a more common feature of  recent campaigns -- negative and sometimes personal attacks.
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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.