Oct 31 2004
With special guest: Danny Glover
Sunday, October 31 Statehouse Convention Center, 1 Statehouse Plaza, Little Rock
Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Pre-program starts at 5:30 p.m.
Free tickets from Coordinated Campaign Headquarters, 523 W. Third St.
Little Rock, AR 72201, (501) 374-0836
Oct 31 2004
| Bush, Kerry Crisscross Midwestern States photo APPLETON, Wis. (AP) – As President Bush and John Kerry crisscrossed Midwest battleground states Saturday, a new poll showed the incumbent moving ahead of the Massachusetts senator in the popular vote, and Democrats said their private surveys also hinted at momentum for the president. A Newsweek… |
| AP: White House Electoral Race Nearly Tied photo WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are virtually tied in the Electoral College count, fighting over eight to 10 states so close and unpredictable that anything is possible Tuesday night. After months campaigning and a half-billion dollars spent on attack ads, Bush and Kerry are… |
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| Bill Clinton Stumps for Kerry in N.M. photo SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Former President Bill Clinton told swing-state New Mexicans on Saturday their votes could be crucial in electing John Kerry and warned them not to be put off by concerns about security. New Mexico, where Al Gore won by just 366 votes four years ago, has been a focus for both… |
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| Republicans Set to Retain House Majority photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Republicans are poised to renew their grip on the House on Tuesday, and Democrats’ faint hopes of a Senate takeover hinge on close races in a string of southern and western states that favor President Bush. In the marquee congressional campaign of the year, Senate Democratic… |
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| Cheney: Bin Laden Tape a Reminder of War photo DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) – Hitting three battleground states in one day, Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday invoked gun rights as well as the new tape from the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks while criticizing Sen. John Kerry as weak. “We have all seen the tape of Osama bin Laden,” Cheney told… |
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| News Outlets Weigh Pre-Election Coverage photo NEW YORK (AP) – It’s a candidate’s fear and a news executive’s burden: an explosive story on the eve of an election that could tip the balance between victory and defeat for a candidate. The reports about a missing cache of Iraqi explosives illustrated a debate unique to this time of year: Should… |
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| Bush Teases Kerry Over Wisconsin Fumble photo GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – President Bush could not resist a fresh opportunity to tease his opponent about fumbling the name of the Green Bay Packers’ field. In fact, Bush went out of his way Saturday to create the opportunity. After his speech, Bush made an unannounced stop across the street at… |
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| Rulings Expected on Ohio Poll Challenges’ photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal judges in two states are expected to rule Monday on whether and how Republicans may challenge voters’ qualifications at the polls in battleground Ohio. Democrats say planned voter challenges in Ohio and Florida may target minority voters or cause chaos and long lines at… |
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| Nearly 2 Million Floridians Vote Early photo MIAMI (AP) – More than 1.8 million Floridians have cast their ballots through early or absentee voting – nearly 2 1/2 times the number of people who voted early in 2000. Polling places were packed Saturday as people continued to stream in to vote early, with some localities reporting lines several… |
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| Moore to Have Cameras at Polling Places photo COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore plans to have hundreds of cameras outside polling places in Ohio and Florida on Election Day to watch for attempts to suppress voter turnout. The director of the anti-Bush documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11″ announced Saturday that a total of 1,200… |
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| Ky. Senator Deflects Commandments Charge photo FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) – Fighting to keep his seat in a bitter contest, Sen. Jim Bunning on Saturday tried to deflect criticism from his Democratic opponent that recent rhetoric from his campaign broke two of the Ten Commandments. “I think we’ve all broken the Ten Commandments,” the Republican told… |
Oct 30 2004
| Bush, Kerry Spar Over Bin Laden Video photo WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – John Kerry criticized President Bush on Friday for failing to capture Osama bin Laden as a new videotape of the terrorist leader surfaced just before the election. Bush accused the Democrat of “shameful” second-guessing in the face of threats by America’s deadly foe…. |
| Soldiers’ Votes Could Decide Election photo With so many troops fighting in the Middle East, members of the military could play a huge role in deciding the next commander-in-chief in this dead-heat presidential contest. But Democrats and Republicans alike fear that reforms enacted by Congress after 2000 have not fixed the problems… |
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| Legal Tussles, Vote Recounts Possible photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Florida again. And Ohio and Iowa and New Mexico and maybe Wisconsin or one or two other battleground states. All are possible settings for a replay of the court contests and recounts that marked the 2000 election overtime. The neck-and-neck presidential election could end, as it… |
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| Americans Going to Polls With Passion photo WASHINGTON (AP) – There are all sorts of statistics that track how the nation has changed since it last elected a president, perhaps none as telling as this: 98 percent of us remember exactly what we were doing when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Americans are… |
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| Daschle in Tough, Costly Election Fight photo REDFIELD, S.D. (AP) – In the nation’s most dramatic – and most expensive – Senate race, Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is scrambling to maintain his political life as Republicans argue the Democrat is out of touch with people in a state that solidly supports President Bush. Daschle… |
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| Labor Memo Suggests Bush to Win Election photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Labor Department staff, analyzing statistics from private economists, report in an internal memo that President Bush is likely to do “much better” in Tuesday’s election than the polls are predicting. The Kerry campaign said the analysis was an improper use of taxpayer money, and… |
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| Sen. Edwards Votes in North Carolina photo RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Sen. John Edwards returned to his home state to vote Friday, becoming the first candidate on either of the presidential tickets to cast a ballot in an election that polls show is extraordinarily tight. “That may be the deciding vote,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee… |
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| Fire Forces Edwards Plane Back to Airport photo RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Sen. John Edwards’ campaign plane was forced to return to the Raleigh airport Friday night after a battery in the press cabin caught fire about five minutes after takeoff. A sound technician for ABC News was changing a 9-volt battery for his sound equipment when it burst into… |
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| Hawaii Bids to Close Out Presidential Race photo HONOLULU (AP) – A few weeks ago, Republican Gov. Linda Lingle was having a hard time selling the idea that Hawaii could play any real role in the presidential election. Now, she and leading Democrats are talking about the 50th state deciding a 50-50 race. Vice President Dick Cheney, former Vice… |
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| Bush Asked to Stop Using ‘Still the One’ photo WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush campaign said Friday it would stop using the 1970’s hit “Still the One” at campaign rallies after the songwriter, no fan of the president, claimed the Republicans never got permission. John Hall, a former Democratic county legislator in upstate New York, co-wrote the… |
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| Fla. Wants to Keep Election Lines Moving photo MIAMI (AP) – The state election chief reminded county workers to keep lines moving next Tuesday by handing out provisional ballots if they are confronted with a blizzard of disputes over eligibility of voters. Tensions have been mounting in the runup to the presidential vote as politicians trade… |
Oct 29 2004
| Bush, Kerry Trade Charges on Leadership photo SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) – Bitingly personal, President Bush called Sen. John Kerry too weak and wavering for wartime leadership Thursday while the Democrat held Bush responsible for missing explosives in Iraq. “The commander in chief is not getting his job done,” Kerry said. The blunder should cost… |
| Number of Federal Poll Watchers to Triple photo WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department is sending out three times as many poll watchers on Election Day than in 2000, assigning some to Florida and other closely contested states in the presidential election. The 1,090 observers and monitors will be on duty in at least 86 locations in 25 states… |
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| Poll Watchers to Crowd Voting Venues photo Tens of thousands of poll monitors, challengers, lawyers and other activist observers are expected to clog voting precincts in battleground states Tuesday in what will probably be the most scrutinized U.S. election in at least 40 years. Few federal laws govern these largely self-appointed… |
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| Bush Campaign to Recut Doctored Ad photo INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) – President Bush’s campaign acknowledged Thursday that it had doctored a photograph used in a television commercial to remove the president and the podium where he was standing. The campaign said the ad will be re-edited and reshipped to TV stations. A group of soldiers in the… |
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| FEC OKs Unlimited Donations for Recounts photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Presidential and congressional candidates can raise unlimited donations to finance recounts as President Bush and Al Gore did for their high-stakes Florida dispute in 2000. Four of the Federal Election Commission’s six members said Thursday that the FEC’s long-standing rule on… |
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| Cheney Set to Campaign in Hawaii photo EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney will campaign in Hawaii on Sunday, making a rare stop on historically Democratic turf where the presidential race is unexpectedly close, a spokeswoman announced Thursday. “We are competitive in the state; this is a very close race,” Anne Womack… |
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| Edwards: Bush Didn’t Do His Job in Iraq photo INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) – Sen. John Edwards, blaming President Bush for a missing cache of explosives in Iraq, on Thursday called on the Republican to show proof that he directed troops to secure the military depot near Baghdad where the material had been stored. “If George Bush is going to have his… |
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| Million Dollar-Plus Political Donors Rise photo WASHINGTON (AP) – More wealthy donors are giving $1 million or more to partisan political organizations now than before a 2002 law took effect, aimed at removing big money from federal elections. The top giver is George Soros, the billionaire financier who jump-started pro-Democratic efforts to… |
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| GOP Operative Under Fire Over Tactics photo PHOENIX (AP) – GOP operative Nathan Sproul makes no apologies for sending his canvassers out to register Republicans, not Democrats, in battleground states. And if powerful Democrats like Ted Kennedy are demanding the Justice Department investigate him, well, he considers that a badge of honor. “I… |
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| Nader Still a Wild Card in Key States photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats tried to eliminate Ralph Nader as a factor in this year’s presidential race and while the effort had some success, the independent candidate remains a wild card in several battleground states. Four years ago, Democrats blamed Nader for taking votes from Al Gore in… |
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| Florida’s Campaign to Diversify Senate photo TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – The Senate will get either its first Cuban American member, or another woman, when Floridians vote next Tuesday. Former housing Secretary Mel Martinez and Democrat Betty Castor are locked in as tight a race as President Bush and John Kerry. The outcome will not only play a… |
Oct 28 2004
| Bush, Kerry Spar on Iraq, Explosives photo LITITZ, Pa. (AP) – President Bush summoned support from Democrats whose “dreams and goals are not found in the far left wing” of their own party on Wednesday in a late-campaign appeal for crossover votes. Sen. John Kerry said that when it comes to Iraq, the man in the White House “doesn’t get it,… |
| Both Parties Try to Attract Early Voters photo WASHNGTON (AP) – Early voters are casting ballots at a runaway pace in Arizona’s biggest county. They’ve exhausted absentee ballots in some towns in Maine. They’re far outpacing 2000 in Florida hot spots. With 32 states now offering some form of early voting, an AP/Ipsos poll taken last weekend… |
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| Poll: Kerry Gaining Among Swing Voters photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic Sen. John Kerry gained some ground on President Bush among swing voters in the last month, with several citing the presidential debates as a factor in their shift, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press called back… |
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| Polls Force Campaigns to Change Strategy WASHINGTON (AP) – The road to the White House is taking some strange and sharp turns as tightening polls and pressure from party stalwarts force the presidential campaigns to adjust their strategies. In a flurry of homestretch activity, former President Clinton was giving satellite interviews to… |
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| Bush Chides Kerry for Iraq Explosives Talk photo LITITZ, Pa. (AP) – President Bush returned Democrat John Kerry’s fire on a missing Iraqi weapons cache Wednesday, accusing his rival of rushing to judgment before all the facts were known and “denigrating” U.S. forces and their commanders. “A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without… |
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| Ads Make Closing Arguments in Campaign photo KENDALL, Fla. (AP) – President Bush promises to do “whatever it takes” to keep the country safe. Democrat John Kerry says Bush has failed and calls for “a fresh start.” The presidential candidates are making their closing arguments in television ads designed to show stark differences as voters… |
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| Edwards Goes on Offensive in Florida photo KENDALL, Fla. (AP) – Sen. John Edwards accused President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney of “using our troops as shields to protect their own jobs,” hitting back at the president’s claim that Democratic Sen. John Kerry was making wild charges about the circumstances of a cache of missing… |
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| Campaigns Hope for Hispanic Voter Turnout photo WASHINGTON (AP) – The major political parties are hoping bilingual phone banks, booths at Latin street festivals and television ads on Spanish-language networks will boost voter turnout among the nation’s largest minority group. But for which candidate? “Latinos have shown they will dance with any… |
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| GOP Governors Group Challenged Over Ads The Republican Governors Association has been pulled into court and before regulatory agencies in several states this fall, where it’s been fined or ordered to temporarily pull GOP gubernatorial candidate ads. Democrats say the GOP is skirting state laws to give its candidates an edge, while… |
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| Cheney Admonishes Kerry Over Explosives photo KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) – Vice President Dick Cheney, faced with growing criticism from John Kerry over the disappearance of hundreds of tons of explosives in Iraq, said Wednesday that the Democrat doesn’t even know if the weapons were in the storage facility when invading U.S. troops passed through…. |
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| Expat Voters Turning Out in Large Numbers photo GIESSEN, Germany (AP) – To ensure soldiers at this U.S. base in southwest Germany could participate in the Nov. 2 presidential election, voting assistance officer John Miller ordered 6,000 “write-in” absentee ballots – more than enough, he believed. But by this week, all but 100 of the generic… |
Oct 27 2004
| Bush, Kerry Trade National Security Barbs photo ONALASKA, Wis. (AP) – President Bush and Sen. John Kerry accused each other of lacking the hard-nosed resolve of Cold War presidents – from Democrat Truman to Republican Reagan – reaching across party lines a week before Election Day to try to break their campaign deadlock. With tensions rising… |
| Cheney Rejects Kerry Criticism on Iraq photo PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) – Accusing John Kerry of playing an “armchair general,” Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday rejected the Democrat’s criticism of the loss of hundreds of tons of explosives in Iraq, saying toppling Saddam Hussein took thousands of times that amount of potentially dangerous… |
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| Illinois Senate Candidates Trade Insults photo CHICAGO (AP) – Often trading personal insults, Alan Keyes and Barack Obama bickered over everything from broad government philosophy to details of policy on education and gay marriage Tuesday evening in the third and final debate of their Senate race. “I know that Senator Obama sometimes has… |
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| Court Won’t Put Nader on Ballot in Ohio WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to put independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader on the ballot in the battleground state of Ohio. On Friday, Nader asked the high court to review Ohio’s decision to remove him, arguing that a state law that requires people who collect… |
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| Bush Stance on Civil Unions Upsets Groups photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Some conservative groups expressed dismay Tuesday over President Bush’s tolerance of state-sanctioned civil unions between gay people – laws that would grant same-sex partners most or all the rights available to married couples. “I don’t think we should deny people rights to a… |
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| Pre-Election Suits Feed Election Doubts photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Voters can be forgiven for assuming the courts may once again settle the presidential election. New lawsuits over election rules pop up almost every day, along with reports of fraud or mischief. Thousands of lawyers are already at work for one side or the other, with more on call… |
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| Study: Terror Warnings Up Approval Ratings SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) – When the government issues a terror warning, the president’s approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says. “The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm… |
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| Bush Cuts President Duties for Campaign photo WASHINGTON (AP) – Since August, President Bush has welcomed just one foreign leader to the White House – the interim prime minister of Iraq. No other meetings with foreign dignitaries are on the horizon until Bush goes to Chile in late November for a gathering of Asia-Pacific leaders. It was quite… |
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| Dems Register More New Voters Than GOP HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The Democratic Party has registered 108,000 more new voters than the Republican Party since the April primary in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to figures released Tuesday. The latest round of registrations, which closed Oct. 4, left Democrats with nearly… |
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| Edwards Chides Cheney on Iraq ‘Success’ photo MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Sen. John Edwards on Tuesday assailed Vice President Dick Cheney for claiming Iraq was “a remarkable success story” and argued that the Bush administration is out of touch with the reality of the failure there. “Eleven hundred American soldiers have lost their lives, more than… |
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| Candidates Spar Over Dairy Issues photo RICHLAND CENTER, Wis. (AP) – Got milk? Maybe not. Got a presidential row over dairy issues? Definitely. As President Bush and Sen. John Kerry campaigned in Wisconsin Tuesday, the two campaigns fought over who would be the better president for dairy programs in the cheese-producing competitive… |
Oct 26 2004
| Bush and Kerry Spar Over Iraq, Security photo PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Sen. John Kerry cited the Iraq war and a huge cache of missing explosives Monday as proof President Bush has “failed the test of being commander in chief.” The Republican slammed his rival as “consistently and dangerously wrong” on national security matters. In a race of… |
| Clinton Hails Kerry in Surgery Comeback photo PHILADELPHIA (AP) – It was vintage Bill Clinton, a lip-biting, thumb-wagging, center-of-attention performance. Seven weeks after quadruple bypass heart surgery, looking pale and unusually thin, the former president came back to give John Kerry a sendoff for the final week of the campaign -… |
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| Cheney Attacks Kerry on National Security photo MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – Amid new questions about the Bush administration’s handling of the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney assailed Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s record on national security Monday as misguided and misleading. The vice president zeroed in on Kerry’s remarks over the weekend… |
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| Edwards Drops Zingers in Campaign Talks photo RACINE, Wis. (AP) – On jobs, John Edwards says “outsource George Bush.” On health care, the Democrat claims that the president’s plan is “pray you don’t get sick.” And then there’s the North Carolina senator’s riff about prescription drug advertisements – the ones that suggest that if you take… |
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| Bunning Tries to Avoid Late Collapse photo LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – As their ace pitcher, Jim Bunning watched the Philadelphia Phillies’ seemingly insurmountable 6 1/2-game lead for the National League pennant slip away in one of the biggest collapses in baseball history. Four decades later in what Yogi Berra might describe as “deja vu all… |
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| Glitch Forces GOP to Withdraw Challenges photo COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – State Republicans withdrew thousands of more than 35,000 challenges to new voter registrations because of errors in their filings apparently caused by a computer glitch. Republicans filed the challenges Friday in 65 of Ohio’s 88 counties, saying mail sent to the newly… |
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| Bush Cousins Launch Pro-Kerry Web-Site photo BOSTON (AP) – There goes the invitation to the Texas ranch. Seven distant relatives of President Bush have created a Web site urging visitors: “Please, don’t vote for our cousin.” The Bush relatives, supporters of Democratic challenger John Kerry, say they’ve never met the president but disagree… |
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| Republicans Make Gains in Voting Disputes photo Republicans have won a string of legal victories over recent days in cases involving important election disputes in battleground states such as Ohio, Florida and Michigan. The latest rulings on electronic voting and provisional ballots may not be the final word – but with Election Day looming,… |
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| Gore Urges Fla. Residents to Vote Early photo RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Former Vice President Al Gore asked Democrats to channel any anger they still feel from the Supreme Court’s decision in the 2000 election into energy for John Kerry in this year’s voting. “I want to come back to the feeling I had four years ago,” Gore said. “It’s awfully… |
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| Democrats Use Medicare Law to Attack GOP WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican visions of electoral gains from last year’s Medicare prescription drug law have vanished, replaced by Democrats’ biting criticism of GOP members of Congress who voted for the bill. Democratic candidates are using the issue to link their opponents to drug companies and… |
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| Judge Dismisses Touch-Screen Voting Suit MIAMI (AP) – Eight days before Election Day, a federal judge ruled Monday that Florida’s touch-screen voting machines do not have to produce a paper record for use in case a recount becomes necessary. U.S. District Judge James Cohn said that the machines “provide sufficient safeguards” by warning… |
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