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U.S. Sen. John Kerry denounced John McCain's negative messages on Friday, saying the Arizonan's campaign has turned "ugly" and "desperate." Kerry, a Boston Democrat, made his remarks in a message distributed to his large email list. Here are the key grafs, John McCain has shown a stunning failure of leadership. His campaign, in a time of economic crisis and foreign policy drift, has degenerated into a negative and nasty campaign of smears. The reports are piling up of ugliness at the campaign rallies of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Audience members hurl insults and racial epithets, call out "Kill Him!"...

Former Michigan Gov. William Milliken backed John McCain when he was campaigning to become the Republican presidential candidate. But now Milliken is expressing doubts about his party's nominee, saying he is disappointed by McCain's personal attacks on Democratic opponent Barack Obama and other aspects of McCain's campaign.

(November 1, 2004) Fox News Poll: Kerry 48%, Bush 45% (RV)

Polling firm Zogby International and partner Rock the Vote found Massachusetts Senator John Kerry leading President Bush 55% to 40% among 18-29 year-old likely voters in their first joint Rock the Vote Mobile political poll, conducted exclusively on mobile phones October 27 through 30, 2004. Independent Ralph Nader received 1.6%, while 4% remain undecided in the survey of 6,039 likely voters. The poll is centered on subscribers to the Rock the Vote Mobile (RTVMO) platform, a joint initiative of Rock the Vote and Motorola Inc. (for more information: http://www.rtvmo.com). The poll has margin of error of +/-1.2 percentage points. The...

Security and stabilization efforts in three southern Iraqi provinces are going well, a senior U.S. military officer posted in Iraq said today. The 1st Cavalry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team is responsible for an area that includes Muthanna, Maysan and Dhi Qar provinces in southern Iraq, Army Col. Philip Battaglia, 4th brigade commander, said during a satellite-carried news conference with Pentagon reporters. “We’ve seen the security in this area improve significantly since our arrival in July,” Battaglia said. “The provinces are overall very stable, with occasional attacks by special groups and other criminal elements.” “Special groups” is the term military...

(October 31, 2004) Florida Poll: Kerry 49%, Bush 44%

The economy and jobs dominate as the top issue in Ohio, lending fuel to John Kerry's candidacy -- and keeping the presidential race very close in this potentially crucial state. A third of likely voters in Ohio call the economy and jobs the most important issue in their vote, putting it substantially ahead of terrorism, Iraq or health care. The economy stands taller as the top concern in Ohio than nationally -- and that helps Kerry. Likely voters who pick it as their top issue favor him over President Bush by 73 percent to 25 percent. In the race overall,...

Kerry takes lead in new opinion poll Washington October 8, 2004 - 5:29PM Democrat John Kerry has taken a slight lead over US President George W Bush, according to a new opinion poll. The survey by the Associated Press found that Kerry had gained ground with women, boosting his overall popularity and cutting into the president's advantage on national security. The two candidates remain in a very close race ahead of a second debate tomorrow in St. Louis. Among 944 likely voters, the Democratic ticket of Kerry and John Edwards led Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, 50 per cent...

(October 18, 2004) North Carolina poll: Bush 50%, Kerry 47% [Actual Result: 56% to 44% for Bush]

A Kerry Landslide? Why the next election won't be close. By Chuck Todd Over the last year, most political TV shows handicapping the upcoming presidential election have repeated the refrain that the race will be extremely tight. Last month, CNN's astute commentator Jeff Greenfield hosted an entire segment on how easily this election could turn out like 2000, with President Bush and Sen. John Kerry splitting victories in the popular vote and the electoral college. Greenfield even threw out the possibility of an electoral college split of 269-269, brought about by a shift of just two swing states that went...

Kerry pulls ahead of Bush in Rasmussen Tracking Poll Kerry has pulled ahead of Bush in Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for the first time since August 23. Rasmussen seems to favor Republicans - so the fact that Kerry's advantage has grown lately is a very positive sign. Kerry leads 48.4% - 46.4% in todays poll. The electorate may be leaning towards the challenger, desiring a change. Of course, the explosives left unguarded by the Bush administration and the prospect of Scalia being appointed Chief Justice might have an impact as well.

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kerry (search) has taken a slim lead over President Bush (search), according to an Associated Press poll that shows the president's support tumbling on personal qualities, the war in Iraq (search) and the commander in chief's bedrock campaign issue — national security. Fewer voters than a month ago believe Bush is the best man to protect the country and fight the Iraq war. The AP-Ipsos Public Affairs poll (search), completed on the eve of the second presidential debate, showed a reversal from early September, when the Republican incumbent had the momentum and a minuscule lead. With...

New poll puts Kerry ahead of Bush (Agencies) Updated: 2004-10-03 09:38 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, buoyed by a strong showing in his televised debate with George W. Bush, has recaptured a small lead in their White House race, a Newsweek poll showed. The survey, the first released on the race since the debate Thursday, gave Kerry a 49-46 percent edge over Bush among registered voters in a two-way matchup, and a 47-45 percent margin in a contest also involving independent Ralph Nader. The poll, conducted Thursday to Saturday among 1,013 registered voters, reversed the findings of the last Newsweek...

Oct 21, 2004 - A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday night indicated Bush and Kerry were about even in Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes. Among likely voters, Kerry was ahead by 1 point, 48 percent to 47 percent. Kerry had a 6-point edge, 50 percent to 44 percent, among registered voters. ...

John Kerry, appearing this morning on Fox News Sunday, told a huge whopper . . . : WALLACE: Senator Kerry . . . I want to address something that McCain went after Obama on, and that is proposing more than $800 billion in new spending. Doesn't Obama have a government solution to every problem? KERRY: No, absolutely not. If you look at his health care plan, which John McCain mischaracterized, calling it a government plan, you will see a plan that is entirely a market-based, market-oriented, free-choice plan, nobody mandated to do anything. So the answer is no, that's not...

Cavuto had breaking news that CLINTON/KERRY want the Senate to take up and approve this BAILOUT RESCUE PLAN tommorrow BYPASSING the House Republicans. Isn't this wrong? That isn't the procedure! This must be stopped. They know the House Republicans will present a better bill. I

With all the turmoil in financial markets in the wake of a defeated federal government bailout package, hyperbole is running at high levels. Take former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Kerry appeared on FOX News Channel’s Sept. 29 “The O’Reilly Factor” and commended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for her efforts garnering Democratic votes in the House. He lambasted the Republicans members for not voting ‘yes’ on the proposed $700 billion bailout. “Let me tell you something. She [Pelosi] summoned a supermajority,” Kerry said. “Sixty percent plus voted for this. The Republicans had a super-supermajority – almost veto proof...

Anyone just see Kerry on BOR? What a make-up job? He looks like he dipped his face in molten plastic. And BOR really got him teed off.

And just lied through his crooked teeth on O'Reilly. Can't wait until this is on Youtube.

I think John Kerry says it all. Some might say he was worried about Ted Kennedy but these pics were after the debate. Looks like he is explaing to Dems in Washington how poorly barry did! He said what??? I have a bracelet too!! What is he 5 years old!! LOL Pics: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080927/ids_photos_ts/r2914135255.jpg/ http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080927/photos_ts/2008_09_26t231443_450x321_us_usa_politics_1/ http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080927/ids_photos_ts/r2976749535.jpg/ http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080927/480/809760da69de42cdb7bda2a69a3153a5/ There are more but seems Kerry didn't like what he saw!! Index: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?ei=UTF-8&p=kerry&fr=ush-news&c=images

AP: FBI Investigating Fannie, Freddie, Lehman & AIG

50 RICHEST MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: D–23, R–27 A VIRTUAL DEAD HEAT Republicans beat out Democrats, 27-23, in the race for deepest pockets in Congress: http://www.rollcall.com/features/Guide-to-Congress_2008/guide/28506-1.html?type=printer_friendly I guess that proves the former are the party of the rich and the latter are the party of the poor and downtrodden. And, maybe not. Three of the top five are Dems, including Numero Uno, Senator John Kerry at the top of the heap who is worth almost a quarter billion dollars. Other notables include Uncle Teddy (D) with $48,000,000, McCain (R) $20 million, Pelosi (D) $19 million, Hillary (D) $10 million, and bringing...

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Republican challenger Jeff Beatty took aim today at US Senator John F. Kerry, chiding him as an "elitist" who is "worried about becoming the secretary of state instead of worrying about the secretaries in our state." The attack came less than 24 hours after Kerry shook off a primary challenge from Gloucester Lawyer Edward O'Reilly. Beatty, a counter-terrorism consultant and former CIA agent, reached out to the 31 percent of Democratic primary voters who cast ballots for O'Reilly

One would have thought that leading Democratic senators who claim to be interested in finding other sources of funding to replace American dollars in Iraq, in helping Iraq spend its own money on its own people, and in lowering the price of gasoline for American citizens, would have been all for it. Instead, Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, and Claire McCaskill wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rice asking her "to persuade the GOI [Government of Iraq] to refrain from signing contracts with multinational oil companies until a hydrocarbon law is in effect in Iraq." The Bush administration wisely...

Yesterday morning, I had the honor of testifying before the House Budget Committee on the situation in Iraq. The discussion was polite and civilized, and was a reminder that even now it is possible for people who disagree about what to do in Iraq to argue without raised voices and disagreeable language (apart from the Code Pink women, yelling for those who think that shouting opponents down is preferable to arguing with them). Congressman Brian Baird once again demonstrated that it is possible even for those who bitterly opposed the war to recognize the importance of doing the right thing...

We have to admit, we’re up super early today to monitor the Massachusetts Democrats’ primary, between challenger Ed O’Reilly and incumbent John Kerry. Turnout is expected to be very light, which should favor O’Reilly. (Snip) As much as we like Ed O’Reilly, we’re actually interested in this race for another reason. We believe if Kerry loses today to O’Reilly that SoetorObama will lose the state of Masssachusetts to John McCain in November.

Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Kerry 273 Bush 233 . Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: Obama 268 McCain 270

Sen. John Kerry in an 'about face,' announced he will form a leadership PAC.The longtime critic of such fundraising said Democrat leaders must 'employ all legal and appropriate means' to help Democrats win.

This cycle, with Democrats in control, they've reversed course, giving the party 56 percent of their total $1.1 million in contributions. Similarly, Freddie Mac has given 53 percent of its $555,700 in contributions to Democrats this cycle, compared to the 44 percent it gave during 2006. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have also strategically given more contributions to lawmakers currently sitting on committees that primarily regulate their industry. Fifteen of the 25 lawmakers who have received the most from the two companies combined since the 1990 election sit on either the House Financial Services Committee; the Senate Banking, Housing &...

BOSTON - Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Ed O’Reilly battered incumbent Sen. John Kerry over his vote to authorize the Iraq war and his delivery of funding to Massachusetts, and questioned his commitment to serve out a full term, but failed to inflict major damage on the four-term senator during a brief debate Friday. O'Reilly grew up in Watertown and has deep ties to the town. In what will likely be their only staged debate, scheduled for air on WBZ-TV Sunday at 8:30 am, O’Reilly also accused Kerry of not doing enough to help other Democratic candidates, a charge Kerry called...

their only debate before the Sept 16 primary election, challenger Edward O’Reilly challenged the vote of U.S. Senator John F. Kerry's vote authorizing military action in Iraq and complained the incumbent may not serve out his term if Barack Obama wins the presidency. Mr. Kerry, who some, including Mr. O’Reilly, believe may seek to become Secretary of State in an Obama administration, said only that he “intends” to serve out a new, six year term if re-elected, leaving an obvious opening to accept a cabinet post next year if Democrats take back the White House. The half hour debate taped...

US Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (D-IL) reaches out to supporters after delivering a Labor Day speech at a campaign stop at the Marcus Ampitheather in Milwaukee, Wisconsin September 1, 2008. Senator John Kerry gestures to delegates at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 27, 2008. Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, chats with Annalou Trebitz, 87, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., after a town hall meeting Tuesday, Sep. 2, 2008 at Century Village in Deerfield Beach. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, smiles as his running mate, vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden,...

Starting at 2:39, on youtube clip of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, August 31, 2008:On Governer Sarah Palin: KERRY: ...You know, she may be — I mean, I’m sure she’s a terrific person. I’m not attacking her. I think John McCain’s judgment is once again put at issue, because he’s chosen somebody who clearly does not meet the national security threshold, who is not ready to be president tomorrow. And there’s just no way to...STEPHANOPOULOS: You heard Senator Graham, though. He said that she has more experience than Senator Obama.KERRY: That’s just ridiculous on its face. I mean, John...

Democrats have come up with a new line of attack line against John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin, saying she's another Dick Cheney. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) described Palin as a member of the "flat-earth caucus," who McCain picked purely to please the conservative base. "With the choice of Gov. Palin, it’s the third term of Dick Cheney," Kerry said on ABC News' "This Week." "He’s chosen somebody who doesn’t believe climate change is man-made." Kerry added that Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters should be offended if people suggest Palin was selected to draw some of the female vote away...

Democrats have come up with a new line of attack line against John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin, saying she's another Dick Cheney. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) described Palin as a member of the "flat-earth caucus," who McCain picked purely to please the conservative base. "With the choice of Gov. Palin, it’s the third term of Dick Cheney," Kerry said on ABC News' "This Week." "He’s chosen somebody who doesn’t believe climate change is man-made." Kerry added that Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters should be offended if people suggest Palin was selected to draw some of the female vote away...

Democrats have come up with a new line of attack line against John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin, saying she's another Dick Cheney. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) described Palin as a member of the "flat-earth caucus," who McCain picked purely to please the conservative base. "With the choice of Gov. Palin, it’s the third term of Dick Cheney," Kerry said on ABC News' "This Week." "He’s chosen somebody who doesn’t believe climate change is man-made." Kerry added that Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters should be offended if people suggest Palin was selected to draw some of the female vote away...

Wednesday morning, August 27, between 11 am and 1:30 pm EST or 9 am and 11:30 am mountain time, I'll be chairing a New America Foundation/Middle East Task Force event in Denver at the Colorado History Museum. The keynotes are Senator JOHN KERRY (D-MA), Obama National Security Adviser GREG CRAIG, Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Dean ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, former Congressman and Obama Adviser MEL LEVINE, former German Foreign Minister JOSCHKA FISCHER, and Aspen Institute President (and former CNN Chairman and CEO and TIME Managing Editor) Walter Isaacson. Our panel will be former Israeli negotiator and New America Foundation Senior Fellow...

The Observer finds that Teresa Heinz Kerry appears to believe that the results in Ohio in 2004 are illegitimate: This convention, Ms. Heinz Kerry said, is “full of meaning and full of opportunity, and if you, as I, believe, and I know a lot of you do, we did not lose the last election, nor did Al Gore lose his last election. We won it.” While many Democrats remain angry about conflicts over voter registration and the provision of voting machines, in particular, fewer believe that those provided the margin of victory, or that Kerry was robbed of victory the...

Our sister-publication The New Republic and its staff are blanketing the Democratic convention, and from their coverage we wanted to return to an underappreciated star of the convention. It was, no kidding, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry. Here's TNR's Chris Orr on one speech you may not have watched: Like most, if I'd been told yesterday that John Kerry would give a sharper speech than Bill Clinton, I would have assumed it was because Clinton tanked. The latter didn't (remotely) happen, but the former did, with Kerry giving by far the best speech I've ever seen from him.

The race between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry is as close as it has ever been, even after the Democratic National Convention last week, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Sunday. Kerry is far out in front of Bush on the question of who would unite the country. Fifty-two percent of all those interviewed said Kerry would, while only 39 percent said Bush would.

U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) stands at the podium as he attends a walk-through before the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado August 27, 2008.

In the latest volley in the ping-pong match over 1960s radical William Ayers, the Republican National Committee has dug up a snippet of him praising Senator John F. Kerry for throwing away his Vietnam War decorations. "John Kerry's finest moment," Ayers, a founder of the Weathermen, says in the video from C-SPAN of a January 2006 appearance at the National Press Club while promoting a book. In a 1971 antiwar protest, Kerry discarded the ribbons from medals for valor he was awarded for his service on swift boats. Republicans and groups allied with them attacked Kerry's service and record during...

DENVER -- From the convention hall: All evidence points to a Democratic convention that will have a take-no-prisoners aggressive approach all week, driving home the contrast between John McCain and Barack Obama at every opportunity possible. An official speaking on background said that they were "not going to make the same mistake that we did in '04." Democratic analyst Mark Siegel said, "We begged the Kerry people to make the election a plebiscite on Bush, and make the '04 convention, from beginning to end the Reagan '80 series of questions: Are we better off now than we were four years...

Pope Benedict XVI has bestowed a key position on an American prelate who was the leader of a faction in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that believes Catholic voters should judge political candidates primarily by their views on abortion. With a presidential election looming, supporters of the separation of church and state can hope that the appointment of Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis as the head of the Vatican's supreme judicial body will defuse the controversy in the church about single-issue voting. Burke, an icon of conservative Catholics, is best known as the prelate who announced in 2004...

It is now widely accepted that the surge in American troops helped dramatically improve security in Iraq in the last year. But there has been less notice of, or comment on, how the surge has improved the Iraqi oil sector, which contributes more than two-thirds of the country's gross national product and almost 95 percent of the government's revenue, and remains pivotal to the country's development and stabilization. Oil production has risen about 25 percent in Iraq in the past year. It had been flat from 2005 through mid-2007, hovering around 2 million barrels per day before beginning to climb...

One of the presidential nominating season's most unusual ideas was proposed again Tuesday, this time by one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, when Sen. Joseph Biden advocated a "unity" ticket of Democratic Sen. John Kerry and Republican Sen. John McCain.

The media’s ability to shape opinion derives from its power to slant the news―the pervasive activism known as “media bias”―and also from its power to choose what is and is not reported. But 2004 marked a watershed in American political history. That was the year the old media lost control of our national conversation.

WORCESTER, MA - The week before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, John Kerry drafted his presidential nomination speech and then set off on a cross-country trip that brought him home to thousands of delegates waiting in Boston. Four years later, the senator was back on the stump in the second-largest city in Massachusetts, seeking the votes of 60 people who had been lured to a restaurant with a free lunch and Greek pastries. Times have changed, but Kerry insists he’s as committed to seeking re-election to the Senate this fall as he was to campaigning for the White House four...

Jimmy Carter, John Kerry and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will be among the speakers at next week's Democratic National Convention, organizers announced today. Former Vice President Al Gore also is scheduled to speak at Invesco Field at Mile High on the night Sen. Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination, according to published reports. The convention will gavel open the first three nights — Aug. 25 to 27 — at 3 p.m. Mountain time, the Democratic National Convention Committee announced. It will end each night at 9 p.m. Mountain time. No times have been annnounced for the final night. The schedule...