Candidates focus on economy before new votes
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FLORENCE, South Carolina  - Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee touted their economic credentials in South Carolina on Friday on the eve of the South's first vote for U.S. presidential nominees, while rival Mitt Romney pressed his advantage out West in Nevada.
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 24 -- In a debate here Thursday, Republican White House hopefuls called on President Bush to embrace deeper tax cuts to stimulate the economy, as each sought to portray himself to Florida voters as the true conservative in a race that will shift to a nationwide test in less...
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John McCain and Barack Obama are struggling to win over their party's most loyal voters, and no presidential candidate has a firm hold on what may be the campaign's chief issue, the economy. With the first presidential contests now history, voters appear to be telling the candidates: You still need some polishing.
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The troubled US economy is increasingly shaping the presidential race, with candidates promising fresh initiatives on Friday four days before a Republican nominating contest in hard-hit Michigan.
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - With the presidential race tightening and little time before the first party nomination contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, candidates are trying to woo voters without trampling on their holidays.
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The economy is issue one in job-needy Michigan, where rivals in next week's Republican primary seek support from some of the very voters who are feeling threatened by international trade agreements the presidential contenders embrace.
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The GOP presidential front-runners, locked in a tight race, are churning out ads and talking about the economy in a last-minute effort to win over Michigan voters before Tuesday's primary.
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The race for president has a hot new issue: what to do about the economy's credit crunch. And the candidates, as usual, do not agree.
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Prime Minister John Howard's election campaign received a last-minute boost as new unemployment figures showed a larger than expected fall in the number of jobless, two days before an election he has fought on his economic record.
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President Bush says his economic policies, including billions of dollars in tax cuts, are helping to create new jobs. But not the millions he promised. Democratic challenger John Kerry says 10 million new jobs would be added in his first term. Don't bet on that either.
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For Democratic challenger John Kerry, the presidential race has come down to three words -- focus, focus, focus. Even a hunting trip on Thursday was more about votes than geese.
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Chart how the main Republican and Democrat contenders are faring in the polls ahead of the first key primary.
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Two Fools duel over the candidates' economic policies.
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The stalling economy has been the chief concern of US voters for several months. Even so, the debate about how best to address the issue has not been fully joined. With nominees undecided, the choice for voters is still which Democrat and which Republican. Within the parties there is little disagreement about economics. When the choice becomes Democrat or Republican - the party of higher spending, tax increases and more regulation, or the party of lower taxes, spending cuts and deregulation - the economy will seize the agenda. ...
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GREENWOOD, South Carolina  - U.S. presidential candidates competed on Tuesday to look strong on the economy after an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and shaky markets worldwide exacerbated fears of a U.S. recession.
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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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CANONSBURG, Pa./POPLAR BLUFF  - Democratic  presidential nominee John Kerry, fresh from a campaign revamp  and slipping in the polls, tried to focus on the economy on  Monday but instead offered new criticism of the Iraq war, while  President Bush touted his tax reform.