Candidates increasingly play on fears
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The &quot;scare&quot; issues drawing headlines in the presidential race include flu shots, Social Security and the draft. But terrorism dwarfs all of them, in scale and ferocity.
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Sen. John Kerry, fighting back after President Bush accused him of having dangerous policies, said Tuesday that the Republican incumbent was resorting to a "blanket scare tactic" rather than focusing on his own important choices to keep the country safe.
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Some Democratic presidential  candidates worried on Thursday the White House had begun a  march to war by declaring Iran's Revolutionary Guard a  terrorism supporter while a top Republican said "bombardment"  of Iran should be an option.
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Unlike the past two elections, both Democrats and Republicans face potential headaches in the fall voting if terrorism is a major concern, a poll suggests.
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As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns for president, he rarely misses a chance to warn about the threat from terrorists. "They hate you," he told a woman at an Atlanta college. They "want to kill us," he told guests at a Virginia luncheon.
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Even as Democrats lick their wounds and Republicans bask in President Bush&#39;s second-term victory, would-be presidential candidates for 2008 already are maneuvering for position.
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This year, as usual, the dominance of attack advertisements on television has made it hard to get a clear picture of where the candidates stand.
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The war of coded words about race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has the potential to cause the internal crack-up the party always fears
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Many candidates have made either no impression or a negative one with Republicans, interviews have found.
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Some candidates take âfull disclosureâ too seriously.
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The candidates offered critiques of the opposition party, perhaps signaling a new dynamic in the presidential race.
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Fourteen candidates for president ranked by perceptions of their creepinees.
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US presidential challenger John Kerry went on the warpath seeking to shake perceptions that President George W. Bush can do a better job of keeping Americans safe.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry urged voters on Saturday to reject President Bush's scare tactics and support his optimistic outlook as the candidates disagreed over who could best fight terrorist threats.
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For Democratic candidates, the growing risk of a recession is an opportunity for action. For Republicans, it presents a dilemma.
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For months, public opinion polls in the United States have suggested that the major issues in this year&#39;s presidential campaign are Iraq, the war on terror, jobs, and health care.
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Candidates keep announcing that they are running or almost certainly running, then later, saying so again.