ANALYSIS: Country polarized over president, his policies as GOP ...
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As Republicans gather to make their case for President Bush&#39;s re-election this week, they will do so against a backdrop as divisive as any since 1968, when Democrats needed the National Guard to preserve order outside their Chicago convention.
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Despite the rare advantage of one-party rule, President Bush has to surmount divisions within his own party.
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New public opinion polls are painting a contradictory picture of the US presidential race, even as Democrat John Kerry tries to sharpen his policy differences with President Bush.
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From his domestic policy platter, President Bush chose to serve dessert before the main course. Having now won a second term, he may find it increasingly difficult to deliver on the meatier stuff, even with the political capital he is claiming and larger GOP majorities in the House and Senate.
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President Bush's unpopularity -- due largely to the war in Iraq -- seems likely to affect GOP candidates in the midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released today. Fifty-five percent of 1,004 Americans surveyed said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who has supported Bush administration policies, according to the poll.
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They say this will be a "Democratic year." Many pundits predict that Republicans will lose the White House because President Bush is unpopular, the economy is in a tailspin, the Iraq war is unabated and a plurality of voters identify themselves as Democrats.
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The country may be more or less evenly divided along partisan lines when it comes to the presidential race, but the Republican Party prevailed in the Nielsen polling of this summer's nominating conventions.
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President Bush is raising the bar on expectations, with a second-term agenda to transform the United States and the world. But early reviews on his evolving legacy are as mixed as the nation is divided politically.
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Many haven't lived in the United States for years, but Americans around the globe were focused on their home country as it elected a new president.
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GOP DIVIDE: The pivotal building blocs of the Republican Party, including white men, conservatives and evangelicals, are divided among the party's leading contenders for president, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows.
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Too often, the consequence of a tight presidential race is the sacrifice of principle to the win-at-all-costs ethos. It should thus come as no surprise that the Bush administration is once again jettisoning prudent trade policy for political calculation.
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In Tuesday's mixed bag of a press review: Russia attempts to preserve its sphere of influence, Spain's military relationship with the US, the implications for Europe of a President John Kerry and the Catholic Church fights back.
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Two new national polls are giving widely divergent views as to whether President Bush&#39;s post-convention bounce has solidified or evaporated.
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Some views on the presidential campaign from voters in the Associated Press poll:
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Seoul, November 4: Opinions differed sharply across Asia on Thursday on US President George W. Bush&#39;s reelection, but one common theme that emerged was for him to soften his perceived unilateralism to help solve crises across the region.
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The country is split over a possible permanent trade deal with the US.
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White men, conservatives, evangelicals and other pivotal blocs are divided among the Republican Party's leading contenders for president, leaving the race for the 2008 GOP nomination highly fluid, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.