2008 hopefuls shift plans for Iraq vote
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, a staunch supporter of sending more troops to Iraq, will skip a Senate vote on the war Saturday to campaign in Iowa while other candidates rearrange their schedules.
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Sen. John Kerry - the Republican? In order to win votes, Kerry&#39;s latest shift has been to claim Republican positions. A few weeks ago, Kerry&#39;s position on Iraq was a time frame for getting the troops out, now
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If Sen. John Kerry is elected, his presidency is likely to bring a sharp shift in White House direction &#151; along with pragmatic backpedaling on some of his boldest campaign promises.
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In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic officials have begun their own quiet policy shift. After countless unsuccessful efforts to push Iraqis toward various political, economic and security go...
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Presidential hopefuls show their antiwar stripes, but differ on how to extricate the US from Iraq.
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The war in Iraq is shaping the opening stages of the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, just as it did in the 2004 campaign.
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John Kerry's aides are moving to shift the battle with President Bush to what they said was stronger ground - domestic policy.
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With California leading the stampede, states are rushing to get more clout in the 2008 White House race by moving their primaries to early February -- a shift that could aid front-runners with big names and big bank accounts.
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The Iraq status report offered by Gen. David Petraeus on Monday and Tuesday continued to reverberate yesterday, with Democratic presidential candidates demanding a swifter exit from Iraq than the Bush administration is planning. And the campaign battle lines hardened, with Republicans attacking...
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US Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry shifts his campaign battleground towards the war Iraq.
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Even as Democrats lick their wounds and Republicans bask in President Bush&#39;s second-term victory, would-be presidential candidates for 2008 already are maneuvering for position.
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Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, one of the most prominent Democrats in the 2008 presidential field, proposed for the first time setting a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq, as part of a broader plan aimed at bolstering the freshman senator's foreign policy credentials.
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As Iraq nears its first national election in January since the American occupation, US Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said there should be an announcement in the near future of more US troop deployments to that embattled country.
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Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry will travel to Iraq next month as the war-torn country prepares for elections.
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In an election where most voters have already chosen sides, the presidency could be decided by a small slice of America in the mushy middle &#151; wavering voters who are more likely than others to question President Bush's honesty and think the war in Iraq was a mistake.
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Presidential hopefuls from President George W. Bush's Republican Party have an uphill battle ahead of the 2008 elections, stung by their support for the unpopular Iraq war and outshone by Democratic star power.
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Anxiety over the Bush administration&#39;s handling of Iraq and the economy may have voters in some states second-guessing who to send to the White House.