Tied US rivals fight for momentum
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US Democratic presidential rivals look to the next round after Super Tuesday polls leave them neck and neck.
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Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its top rival in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games. Klete Keller held off Ian Thorpe and finished the Australians with a lunge for the wall that gave the Americans a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle relay. The margin was only 13-hundredths of a second.
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With six days to go until the New Hampshire primary, there are ties in poll results for the top candidates in both parties.
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US presidential hopefuls do battle on Sunday talk shows in a final bid for votes ahead of Super Tuesday.
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The US presidential candidates did some late cramming for their high-stakes televised debate, with George W. Bush seeking to lock in his lead in the polls and challenger John Kerry hoping to stage a comeback.
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Steve Stricker and Hunter Mahan led the way as Presidents Cup holders the United States dominated Thursday's opening foursomes to lead the Internationals by 5-1/2 points to a half.
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US President George W Bush and his White House rival John Kerry have been racing from one Midwestern battleground state to another as election day looms.
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The latest round of polls in the US election race shows the presidential candidates more or less tied, with Democratic hopeful John Kerry trailing Republican president George Bush by two or three percentage points, a gap still within a margin of error.
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The US presidential election could not be tighter as the Republican Party convention gets under way this week. Bush will face off for the presidency in November against Senator John Kerry
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - The heavyweight  United States duo of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were on  track for their second defeat of the day as Europe maintained a  stranglehold at the 35th Ryder Cup on Friday.
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President George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry, deadlocked in their White House race, plowed well-worn electoral turf in the US Midwest scrounging for votes in next week's election.
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George W. Bush has either established a commanding lead over John Kerry or he has lost most of the momentum generated by his party&#39;s convention and fallen back into a tie with his Democratic rival.
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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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Two opinion polls released showed Democratic challenger John Kerry back in contention with President George W. Bush in the US election race.
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On target and on fire, the US men&#39;s 100-meter sprinters scorched the Olympic Stadium&#39;s fast track through two rounds yesterday to advance to today&#39;s
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US President George W. Bush gained momentum in Florida and appears to have a slight lead over Democrat John Kerry, according to a poll out which nonetheless suggests the race is too close to call.
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A PERSON could go mad trying to follow US election polling. One day George W.Bush is slumping, the next he&#39;s up. One day John Kerry has momentum, the next he&#39;s dead meat.