Likely Bush victory stirs mixed reactions
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With America&#39;s hawkish President George W. Bush headed for a likely second term in office, the US election produced mixed reactions and a dose of caution in the troubled Middle East on Wednesday.
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Even some of President Bush's sharpest critics joined him in hailing the Iraq elections Sunday as a victory for democracy. But Republicans and Democrats agreed that it will be some time before American troops can come home.
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A divided world came to terms on Wednesday with the prospect of four more years of President Bush, with friends hailing his re-election and critics vowing to make the best of it, especially in Iraq.
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U.S. soldiers in Iraq are largely supportive of President Bush, but they also expressed widespread pessimism about the war.
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KIEV (CBS) As the Bush administration reveled in the apparent election of a pro-Western president in Ukraine, the atmosphere in eastern Ukraine Monday was full of apathy, tears and disappointment as the opposition declared victory in a bitterly contested
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President Bush, declaring victory in the 2004 election, sketched out a second-term agenda on Wednesday even supporters conceded would be tough to achieve
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A recount shows George W. Bush&#39;s win in Ohio - the state that delivered the president his narrow victory - was a bit closer than originally thought.
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Opinion polls show support for  President Bush and his Democratic rival as almost dead even,  but as the Republican convention began on Monday investors  trading presidential futures did not believe the race would be  nearly so close.
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Most striking to me about President Bush's final State of the Union address Monday night was how unsurprising it was. Before the speech, White House officials set low expectations -- and Bush met them.
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President Bush has been gaining ground among overall voters as a leader and the man to fight terrorism, but swing voters have been less impressed, a tracking poll suggests.
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President Bush swept to an apparent popular-vote victory over Senator John Kerry last night, and seemed headed toward winning enough Electoral College votes to assure his re-election.
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Americans are feeling a bit more optimistic about the future of Iraq, a bright spot for the administration in an Associated Press poll that indicates many are souring on President Bush's job performance.
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Whoever officially wins this election&mdash;at the time of this writing, it&rsquo;s technically still a squeaker that could conceivably go either way, though it&rsquo;s looking like Bush&rsquo;s first election to office&mdash;what is clear is that the Republicans owned the political agenda. I&rsquo;m not talking about Iraq or terrorism, though those were significant issues. What I&rsquo;m talking about is what got so many people to turn out and vote Republican on Tuesday: values.
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If Bush wins reelection, history shows he may have to overcome fleeing staff, declining support.
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In the unpredictable world of politics, leads in the polls and candidates' confidence can evaporate in an instant. But President Bush and his campaign advisers are feeling pretty good these days about his chances.
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Washington, Dec. 21 (PTI): A majority of Americans among those who believed at the beginning that the Iraq war would be swift and victorious now think it was a mistake and the January 30 elections to be held in the country would not be honest.
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Sweeping Democratic gains forecast for November's legislative elections now appear to be in doubt, with new polls showing US President George W. Bush resurgent, while voter disgust with lawmakers in Congress is on the rise.