Tensions rise as 2008 White House votes loom
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White House candidates battled in dueling rallies and airwaves saturated with attacks ads Saturday, five days before Iowa activists make their picks in the first 2008 nominating contests.
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Upstart challengers and fierce early combat are giving Hillary Clinton and John McCain, the once-anointed establishment frontrunners, a rough ride in the 2008 White House race.
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When rival political camps start attacking each other&#39;s credibility, you know an election is looming. That&#39;s where things are now in the presidential race between Republican President George Bush and his challenger, Democratic Sen. John Kerry.
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Economic anxiety may be at least matching national security as a factor driving the 2008 presidential contest as the voting begins.
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It has unfolded mostly under the radar. But an important development in the 2008 Democratic battle may be the building backlash among African Americans over comments from associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that could be construed as jabs at Sen. Barack Obama's race.
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As electoral votes line up, Bush, Kerry fight over how to win in a changing West.
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Tensions have been mounting in the runup to the presidential election as Florida politicians trade accusations over claims of fraud, missing absentee ballots and concerns that thousands
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Mounting demands from lawmakers for a new Iraq policy are battering President George W. Bush, but the White House insists the rising political heat will not force a quick about-face on troop withdrawals.
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Democratic Sen. Barack  Obama opens his 2008 White House run on Saturday in a setting  rife with symbolism and historic links to Abraham Lincoln's  fight to end slavery.
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Barack Obama's rivals in the Democratic presidential race contend he sometimes voted "present" on tough issues rather than take a firm stand.
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The latest sign of trouble for the White House.
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The US presidential election campaign has proved so contentious that reuniting politically-divided Americans could prove beyond whoever wins the White House.
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Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama unloaded a sharp new attack on rival Hillary Clinton Thursday, coupled with a ringing new call for change, one week before first 2008 votes are cast.
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The prospect of a change in the White House tends to draw a strong reaction, pro or con.
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Division between President Bush and Congress over the Iraq war hardens.
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The Iraq war is beginning to take a back seat in the 2008 White House campaign pushed aside by concerns over the US economy and other domestic issues, the New York Times reported Thursday.
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The White House took both sides in a dispute over English being the national language Friday as a broad immigration bill moved toward a final Senate vote next week with one conservative predicting it will never become law.