Presidential Second Terms Can Be Painful
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An upbeat President Bush set forth an aggressive agenda for the next four years, but he also must deal with the realities his predecessors faced &#151; second terms tend to be disappointments, often marred by scandals, infighting and lackluster performances.
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WASHINGTON A second term for George W. Bush is hardly the outcome Europe desired. But neither Europe nor America can afford four more years of strain.
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It is ghoulish, but two deaths - one at home, the other abroad - are about to reveal the true face of George Bush&#39;s second term.
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Resentment has been building at how presidential elections have become gold mines for media consultants.
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As the dust settles, as second reactions form, the American elections look like making life harder for London, not easier.
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Both of Washington's potential new governors have experienced the uncomfortable sensation of reading their own political obituaries.
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Both major candidates for president want the country to be less dependent on foreign oil. But whoever is elected will face many of the same challenges that defeated
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Voters in Ohio delivered a second term to President Bush by a decisive margin. But the way the vote was conducted there, election law specialists say, exposed a number of weak spots in the nation&#39;s election system.
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President Bush will be confronted by  strong domestic and foreign policy challenges as he begins a  second term this week that will go a long way toward  determining his place in the pantheon of American presidents.
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Anxiety over the Bush administration&#39;s handling of Iraq and the economy may have voters in some states second-guessing who to send to the White House.
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Scarred from their second defeat at the hands of George W. Bush, the Democratic party will be searching for names who can take on the Republicans in four years. And an obvious one is Clinton.
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A presidential election can be a strange prism on the real world. Small incidents can look monumental simply because theyâre unexpected or embarrassing (remember the flap over
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An important part of President Bush's second-term plans went slightly off the rails during an inauguration week that ran pretty much on time.
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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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CLOUDED HOPES: An Associated Press poll finds that six in 10 Americans feel hopeful about President Bush's second term, but the hope is clouded by anxiety over when the bloodshed in Iraq will end.
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Braced for a second painful rejection Tuesday in the White House race, Hillary Clinton is seeking fresh  battlefields on which to blunt Barack Obama's surge.
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Here&#39;s the bad news for stem cell advocates: George W. Bush, the president who first placed severe restrictions on such research, was re-elected to a second term Tuesday.