Bush takes his of-the-people style to rural voters
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Bush is working hard to woo voters in small towns to overcome Kerry's advantage in bigger cities.
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US President George W. Bush asks voters to &quot;stand with me&quot; come election day, so it seems only fair that he stand with them as they battle noxious weeds or brown tree snakes and go about canning pears.
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From North Carolina to South Dakota, candidates vie to be of the people, not of Washington.
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Busing through western Ohio, where jobs have been slow to come back in the economic recovery, President Bush told rural audiences on Saturday that he would work to open foreign markets to U.S. crops and factory goods.
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Millions of Americans view President Bush as the candidate most likely to keep Americans safe. But too often, real-life results conflict with Bushâs rhetorical resolve.
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As the nation poises for another close presidential election, few voters or politicians will be biting their fingernails over local races on Election Day.
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US President George W. Bush campaigned in the Republican heartland of Florida, the state which delivered him the White House in 2000, as his opponent, Senator John Kerry, targeted Hispanic voters in the American west.
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President Bush is reveling in winning the popular vote and feels he can no longer be considered a one-term accident of history.
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The most important form of political compromise in Iraq is not among top Iraqi politicians in Baghdad, but at the local level, President Bush asserted yesterday, in a departure from past rhetoric on Iraqi politics.
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Bush &amp; Co. are pitching self-sufficiency, urging voters to take control of health-care and Social Security decisions. Like the embattled hero of one of those old Ronald Reagan movies, George W. Bush is a lonely man with a tough road ahead.
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Wooing rural voters in the key heartland state of Iowa, US President George W. Bush charged Democratic rival John Kerry's was unfit to lead the war on terrorism and win in Iraq.
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President Bush is driving his re-election campaign toward next week&#39;s finish line, with a series of more optimistic speeches that Republicans hope will rise above some of the hostility of this campaign season.
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Enmeshed in his re-election campaign, President Bush rarely spends a full day at the White House. But even when he does, presidential politics and campaign pitches remain close at hand.
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Long after President George W. Bush has retired to his Texas ranch, his fellow Republicans may have to deal with Hispanic voter backlash over his failed immigration reform.
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US President George W. Bush goes into the Republican convention next week mocking Democrat John Kerry's glamorous Hollywood support base and pitching instead to America's rural heartland.
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The war in Iraq; jobs and the economy; terrorism. For voters nationwide, those issues seem sure to determine the outcome on Election Day. But in several critical swing states, the conservative push to amend state constitutions and ban gay marriage is giving delegates and party officials a way to lure a group of voters &#151; especially traditional churchgoers &#151; who could tip these states to President Bush.
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The proposal, aimed at reducing the deficit, puts the president at odds with some of his most ardent supporters in the rural South.