Candidates fine-tune campaign pitches
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After a year of position papers and policy speeches, handshakes in the summer heat and winter snow, advertising that floods mailboxes and TV screens, and too many bites of pork on a stick at too many county fairs, it's time.
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The Bush campaign has pressed rally audiences to work as foot soldiers, before, during and immediately after Bush events.
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The candidates offered critiques of the opposition party, perhaps signaling a new dynamic in the presidential race.
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Under fire to shape up his presidential campaign, Democratic challenger John F. Kerry on Sunday tapped two veteran party strategists from Boston to assume
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The battle for the U.S. presidency  can be seen as a prize fight gone wild -- one with campaign  stand-ins jumping into the ring to throw punches.
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CARROLL, Iowa -- In the same small town, 20 hours apart, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made their pitches. They each faced audiences of more than 500 people, many committed, many undecided. She spoke for 42 minutes, he for 45.
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It's not all attack ads and stomping opponents from the stump. Since the start of the fall campaign, President Bush and Democrat John Kerry have answered questions from The Associated Press three times a week, on the issues.
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Sen. John Kerry and President Bush called in baseball figures to pitch for their campaigns Sunday, looking to capitalize on the national pastime.
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While the race for the White House draws most of the public's political attention between now and Election Day, operatives of both parties and private-sector industries will focus a good deal of effort on state races.
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Both candidates are making their final blitzes through several swing states in the waning hours of the campaign, delivering punchier and sharper critiques.
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The candidates made their final pitches to voters in a state that has not previously had a starring role in the early stages of the presidential nomination process.
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Call it the presidential candidates' striptease. White House hopefuls aren't willing to just declare they're running, but rather are flirting with the idea as long as possible. First, they show some leg with an exploratory committee, then plenty of skin with a pronouncement on a faux news program or a late-night show and finally they bare all with a ruffles-and-flourish formal announcement.
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In a fast-moving presidential contest with little breathing room, Democratic candidates are courting their base hard.
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Lib Dem rivals Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne set out their pitches in the first hustings of the leadership campaign.
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NASHUA, NH -- John Kerry&#39;s campaign hopes some of the Boston Red Sox&#39;s come-from-behind magic will rub off on their candidate.
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Both campaigns have exhorted their supporters to flood the media with messages declaring a winner in the debates, hoping to influence the post-debate spin wars.
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Campaign promises have changed little in the run-up to the presidential election, but the rhetoric has intensified.