Keyword: ruralvote
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SAGINAW, Mich. - President Bush (news - web sites) and John Kerry (news - web sites) are trying to define and dominate the debate on gay marriage, abortion, gun rights and other values in a more virtuous-than-thou scramble for voters like blue-collar Democrat Carolyn Brooks. The 61-year-old clerk opposes abortion, even to save a woman's life, and gay marriage, even if it requires amending the Constitution. But there's a value she places above all others: Honesty. "And Bush, with his war on Iraq (news - web sites), has failed on that note," Brooks said. Along with the economy and the...
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MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — President Bush was greeted Tuesday by cheers of "four more years" as he spoke to a crowd of thousands that packed Northern Michigan University's Superior Dome for a campaign rallyBush said he and Vice President Dick Cheney represent the strong, optimistic leadership that the nation needs. And he encouraged those gathered in the Upper Peninsula community to encourage others to register to vote. "I'm here to ask for your vote," Bush said. "I'm here to ask for your help."Bush's visit — the first to Marquette by a sitting president since William Howard Taft in 1911 —...
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WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) is courting rural voters in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, closely shadowing rival John Kerry (news - web sites)'s recent Midwestern tour and trying to outflank the Democrat on his claim that he is the champion of "conservative values." Bush refers to Kerry as "the senator from Massachusetts" — a dig meant to reinforce Bush's assertion that Kerry is out of touch with Middle America. Bush carries that message on Tuesday to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a sparsely populated region no sitting president has visited in more than 90 years. Bush won the Upper...
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Associated Press WASHINGTON - Four years ago, George W. Bush carried rural voters by 22 percentage points over Al Gore, in an election polarized between "red" rural America and "blue" cities. This year, John Kerry hopes to mix the colors up a little. Kerry, a Massachusetts senator and the presumptive Democratic nominee, has been trying to portray himself as culturally in tune with rural Americans in an effort to pick up swing voters in the battleground states of the Midwest. Rep. Dick Gephardt, a former presidential candidate, said Kerry has a good opportunity. "John has been saying that he's for...
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INDEPENDENCE, Wis. (Reuters) - John Kerry, veteran senator from Massachusetts, New England blue blood and Democratic White House hopeful, learned to swear from a farmer, loved to drive a tractor and once had a passion for plowing.· 'Kid from the East' Kerry Feels Farmers' Pain. "When I was a kid, this kid from the East, I had an aunt and uncle who owned a dairy farm," Kerry told a town hall meeting on Saturday in Independence, midway through a 546-mile July 4 weekend road trip across America's heartland to win over rural voters. The son of a diplomat who was...
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> July 2, 2004 Bush and Kerry Vie for Support of Rural VotersBy ROBIN TONER LOQUET, Minn., July 1 — Four years ago, George W. Bush won some of his biggest and most decisive margins among rural and small-town voters. But Democrats say economic troubles and the war in Iraq have taken a disproportionate toll on rural communities. They vow that the struggle for these voters will be — must be — far more competitive this time around. So Senator John Kerry will come on Friday to Cloquet, not far from Duluth, and kick...
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CLOQUET, Minn. -- Reaching out to rural voters who overwhelmingly backed George W. Bush four years ago, John Kerry kicked off a holiday weekend bus tour through three Midwestern states Friday by asking residents here to help "bring an end to the Bush administration and march forward." Kerry lashed out at Republicans who have accused him of offering unfairly grim assessments of the economy, seizing on Friday's announcement from the Labor Department that the economy had added 112,000 jobs in June, far fewer than economists had predicted. "They say this is the best we can do," Kerry said, repeating a...
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), hoping to narrow President Bush's strong advantage in rural America, is highlighting agriculture policies he says will help family farmers and ranchers. Kerry is in the middle of a three-day, 546-mile Fourth of July weekend bus tour through rural Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, just over three weeks before he accepts his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention. He planned to meet Saturday with family farmers and ranchers in nearby Independence, Wis., before heading to Dubuque, Iowa, to watch fireworks along the Mississippi River. On Friday, Kerry...
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WASHINGTON, DC - Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) issued the following statement regarding why John Kerry is wrong for Minnesota: "The more than 19,000 jobs created in Minnesota during April and May alone means that President Bush's pro-growth policies are working. America's economy is strong and growing stronger, and the 1.5 million new jobs created over the past ten months show just how detached John Kerry's pessimistic rhetoric is from reality. "While John Kerry wants to severely restrict snowmobile use in state and national parks, Minnesotans understand the importance of a balanced approach that protects our valuable natural resources while allowing...
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CLOQUET, Minn. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) on Friday talked up his economic and energy policies as he sought to chip away at President Bush (news - web sites)'s support among rural voters. With just over three weeks before he accepts his party's nomination, Kerry embarked on a three-day bus tour through small Midwestern towns while his campaign bought $14 million of airtime for television ads in 18 battleground states and cable television. Kerry told several hundred supporters at an outdoor rally outside of Duluth that small towns such as Cloquet — population 11,200 —...
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John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, on Friday began a three-day bus tour of small-town America to mark the Independence Day weekend, highlighting his economic differences with President George W. Bush while dodging questions about who will be his vice-presidential choice. Beginning in tiny Cloquet, Minnesota, Mr Kerry aimed to appeal to rural voters by criticising the administration's record on job creation, trade, budget cuts and healthcare. "They say this is the best we can do," Mr Kerry said. "Don't tell us losing 1,300 dairy farms in Minnesota is the best we can do. In 2004, we have to bring...
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