Candidates struggle to widen appeal
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John McCain and Barack Obama are struggling to win over their party's most loyal voters, and no presidential candidate has a firm hold on what may be the campaign's chief issue, the economy.
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Money helped winnow the presidential field. It hasn't determined who each party's nominee will be.
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Short on time to tweak their strategies before New Hampshire votes, Barack Obama's chief Democratic rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards are struggling to keep their messages in step with voters' embrace of freshness and change.
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The presidential campaign is entering a new phase as the campaign has turned into a possibly lengthy hunt for delegates for the first time in 20 years.
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Campaigns are reconsidering strategies as they gird for the prospect of a 20-state national primary day on Feb. 5.
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A Feb. 5 vote brings candidates to the state, as intended. But fundraising still trumps issues.
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President overshadowed by race to choose successor attempts to reassert primacy
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More than the other major presidential candidates, Rudolph W. Giuliani has limited himself to events with narrowly defined, friendly audiences.
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Presidential contenders squeezed a final few hours of campaigning out of the old year on Monday in a race marked by exhausting personal appeals, anonymous phone calls and a negative campaign commercial that vanished into thin air.
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As candidates come under increasing pressure, accuracy is sometimes sacrificed on the stump.
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RICHMOND -- Campaigning is hard. Governing is even harder.
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From North Carolina to South Dakota, candidates vie to be of the people, not of Washington.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush has been solidifying his gains in states that once were dead heats, forcing both parties' campaigns to alter strategies as the electoral battleground shrinks. Democrat John Kerry is struggling to stay afloat in some hotly contested states, including Missouri, Wisconsin and Ohio, where polls show Bush pulling ahead...
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The Trail | Campaign refocuses after Tuesday's pummeling raises new questions about strategy.
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry got to work on one of the weak points in his campaign for the White House, trying to improve his appeal to women.
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The party's presidential hopefuls lead in fundraising and online traffic. But it's too early to put much stock in such indicators.
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Republican presidential candidates descending on Little Havana are finding they must work harder than ever to win Cuban-American support and need to go beyond anti-Castro sloganeering and swigging cafe con leche.