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COVER STORY MEET THE JOHNS Newly anointed running mate John Edwards is giving John Kerry's campaign an injection of charisma...
...talking about John Kerry's vote last year against the $87 billion appropriation to support the troops and begin the reconstruction of Iraq. "Only a small, out-of-the-mainstream minority voted against the legislation-and two of those 12 Senators are my opponent and his running mate." The crowd booed lustily, but Bush was not done. He cited Kerry's now infamous quote: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." The President paused, chuckled and said, "That sure clears things up." Then came Bush's moment. "The American President," he said, slowly, percussively...
When John Kerry introduced his running mate last week, he and John Edwards kicked off a partnership that has four months to win enough hearts and minds to put the Democrats back in the White House. But many analysts in the U.S. argue that the election isn't Kerry's to win - it is George W. Bush's to lose. Whenever an American President seeks re-election, the race becomes a referendum on his first term; this year, with the war in Iraq still unfolding and the U.S. electorate so divided, that's especially true. With the Democratic convention just...
...nation divided. Polls have consistently shown - reprising the razor-close margin of 2000 - that the electorate is pretty evenly split between those likely to support President George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, and Senator John Kerry, his Democratic opponent. And Kerry's dramatic choice of a running mate last week - his primary rival John Edwards, a charismatic North Carolina senator who is widely regarded as a better campaigner than Kerry - isn't likely to change that. Bush has polarized the U.S. into camps of those who love the President - who believe that, since Sept. 11, 2001, he has shown steadfast...
...that Short would show the letter around Europe and bolster the perception of the U.S. as a smoothly running republic. By February 1801, when he wrote to his son-in-law, the race had taken an unexpected twist. He had bested John Adams, but now Jefferson and his running mate, Aaron Burr, were tied with 73 electoral votes apiece for President. In the House of Representatives, which was to decide the winner, there were eight states for Jefferson, six for Burr and two undecided. The body ultimately chose Jefferson, and later passed the 12th Amendment to avoid a same-party...