Poll gives Bush 11-point edge in Ohio
One month after President Bush and Sen. John Kerry were effectively deadlocked in Ohio, Bush has surged to an 11-point lead over the Democratic nominee in that key battleground state,...
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`Values’ pitch a potent elixir
Betty Kinder sees the world turned upside down--fear at home, morals in a downward spiral, and things she never imagined suddenly turn up in the privacy of the voting booth....
Swift boat skipper: Kerry critics wrong
The commander of a Navy swift boat who served alongside Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry during the Vietnam War stepped forward Saturday to dispute attacks challenging Kerry's integrity and war...
Kerry gives Democrats an identity they like
Coming from a big, highly diverse and frequently fractious party, Democrats in recent years often have been defined more by causes than ideology, and more by what they stand against...
A mirror for the nation
Sam Dohle never met Harry Truman, but after years of leading tours through the 33rd president's humble wood-frame birthplace in this flyspeck of a southwestern Missouri town, he feels a...
Recruiting pitch called scare tactic
MariAnn Curta said she was "freaked out" during much of her son's recently completed nine-month tour of duty in Iraq, where he drove a fuel truck in the Sunni Triangle....
NO DOUBT
In the mind of Samantha Sheldon, there is no doubt: Iraq and Al Qaeda are joined at the hip. "The way Al Qaeda and the Iraqi military under Saddam were...
Campaign dispatches
Twelve years after economic troubles contributed to the defeat of President George H.W. Bush, economic concerns among registered voters far outweigh others in Ohio, a state that is important to...
Campaign dispatches
Forget about forging a Southern strategy, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley advises the eventual Democratic presidential nominee. Focus instead on winning Pennsylvania, Ohio and Missouri, he said. "Those are the states...
Campaign dispatches
Howard Dean held his first campaign event of Thursday in the gloriously restored 120-year-old Grand Opera House, a national historic landmark in downtown Oshkosh, Wis., where an audience of a...