Kerry zooms in on Bush economic record
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WASHINGTON : Democrat John Kerry, seeking to refocus his White House battle against George W. Bush, zeroed in on the president&#39;s economic record he called a litany of fiscal failure and favoritism for the rich.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Sen. John Kerry turns to economic issues Wednesday, while President Bush pursues an end game that includes persistent appeals for Democratic votes and a rarely used weapon in this bruising campaign - a positive commercial.
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Democrats took aim at President Bush&#39;s economic record after release of a Census Bureau report showing the ranks of the uninsured and the impoverished grew in 2003 for the third consecutive year while incomes stayed level.
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President Bush&#39;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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America cannot afford another four years of lost jobs, slow growth and creeping poverty, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said at a rally Saturday, seizing upon two government reports he claims show the failures of the president's economic policies.
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Presidential candidate John Kerry, contending the Bush administration has created &quot;more excuses than jobs,&quot; said today the Democratic ticket would shore up the middle class.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry&#39;s speech to the Detroit Economic Club on Wednesday focused attention on his economic proposals and issued an indictment of President Bush&#39;s policies.
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Democrat John Kerry, behind in the polls and vowing to get tough on the campaign trail, accused President Bush yesterday of operating an &#39;excuse presidency&quot; and promised to create 10 million jobs in four years of a Kerry administration.
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John Kerry, stepping up his attack on President Bush after bad news about the economy, said Saturday the country cannot afford another four years of lost jobs, slow growth and creeping poverty.
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ST. LOUIS  - President Bush seeks to rebound from  his poor showing last week when he faces Sen. John Kerry on  Friday night in a second debate that is sure to focus on the  Iraq war and a lackluster U.S. economy.
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COLUMBUS - John Kerry&#39;s campaign in Ohio seized on yesterday&#39;s Labor Department report that said the US economy added 96,000 jobs in September, a weaker total than expected in the last employment report before the Nov. 2 election.
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WASHINGTON - Democrats took aim at President Bush's economic record after release of a Census Bureau report showing the ranks of the uninsured and the impoverished grew in 2003 for the third consecutive year while incomes stayed level.    The president's surrogates came to his defense, noting that the numbers failed to reflect more recent economic gains, such as the addition of 1.5 million jobs over the past 12 months, or the full effect of the Bush-backed tax cuts...
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WASHINGTON - Democrats are blaming President Bush for the record 2004 federal deficit of $413 billion, but Republicans say the figure shows that the economic and budget pictures are brightening.    The Treasury Department announced the figure Thursday, two weeks after the government's 2004 budget year ended and just 19 days from an Election Day in which Bush's economic and fiscal performance are pivotal issues...
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Intensifying his attack on President Bush&#39;s economic stewardship, Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday accused the president of not acknowledging policy mistakes the Democrat said had resulted
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This is one in an occasional series of stories leading up to November&#39;s election on economic issues being put forth by President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John F. Kerry.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - President Bush and John Kerry, shifting away from the sharp debate over war and terrorism, return to bread-and-butter economic issues in campaign stops in two closely divided states...
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John Kerry has overcome a 14-point deficit in a new opinion poll showing the Democratic White House hopeful in a statistical dead heat with President George W. Bush.