A helicopter carrying three U.S. senators was forced to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan Thursday, military and congressional sources tell CNN.
A new book shows why religion has cost the Democrats elections -- and how they've learned from their mistakes
Congress is expected to move swiftly on an economic stimulus package hammered out this week by House leaders and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. While individual tax rebates are the plan's centerpiece, Congressional leaders said the bill will include provisions aimed at spurring job creation and offering businesses tax incentives for equipment purchases.
Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave Tuesday after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student at a campus forum. Read an account of the incident from a student who was there.
Sen. John Kerry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich met in Washington on Tuesday for a verbal duel about climate change, finding agreement on the problem but vastly different approaches to a solution.
Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, announced Wednesday that he will skip a second run for the White House to concentrate on bringing the war in Iraq to an end.
I'm still worried sick. The R's have seized the news cycle! Which says more about how dim American politics are than anything I can think of.
U.S. troops showed their displeasure -- and sense of humor -- regarding Sen. John Kerry's comments this week to a group of California college students, whom he told to work hard in school or they'd "get stuck in Iraq."
Sen. John Kerry has apologized for a "poorly stated joke," which the Massachusetts senator said was aimed at the president but was widely perceived as a slam on U.S. troops.
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are facing off over comments Kerry made Monday that were widely perceived as a slam on U.S. troops in Iraq.
A helicopter carrying three U.S. senators was forced to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan Thursday, military and congressional sources tell CNN.
A new book shows why religion has cost the Democrats elections -- and how they've learned from their mistakes
Congress is expected to move swiftly on an economic stimulus package hammered out this week by House leaders and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. While individual tax rebates are the plan's centerpiece, Congressional leaders said the bill will include provisions aimed at spurring job creation and offering businesses tax incentives for equipment purchases.
Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave Tuesday after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student at a campus forum. Read an account of the incident from a student who was there.
Sen. John Kerry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich met in Washington on Tuesday for a verbal duel about climate change, finding agreement on the problem but vastly different approaches to a solution.
Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, announced Wednesday that he will skip a second run for the White House to concentrate on bringing the war in Iraq to an end.
I'm still worried sick. The R's have seized the news cycle! Which says more about how dim American politics are than anything I can think of.
U.S. troops showed their displeasure -- and sense of humor -- regarding Sen. John Kerry's comments this week to a group of California college students, whom he told to work hard in school or they'd "get stuck in Iraq."
Sen. John Kerry has apologized for a "poorly stated joke," which the Massachusetts senator said was aimed at the president but was widely perceived as a slam on U.S. troops.
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are facing off over comments Kerry made Monday that were widely perceived as a slam on U.S. troops in Iraq.
President Bush joined GOP lawmakers Tuesday in blasting Sen. John Kerry for telling a group of college students they could either work hard in school or "get stuck in Iraq."
As we watch the left of the Democratic Party pressing its case to return to the top of the heap in American politics, or at least evade the fate of the dodo, we have ever more evidence validating an insight on which I stake my reputation as a political seer. To wit: Partisan politics more often falls under the professional expertise of the psychiatrist than that of the political scientist. A learned shrink can often tell us more about a political issue than any other professional, not excluding a swami or a voodoo priest.
Perhaps the most dubious cliche in American history is the one intoned over and again after terrorists killed 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. That was the cliche that claimed that now "America has changed forever." Well, forever lasted about two years, maybe three. Then American solidarity in the war against terror began to fissure, and, by the way, the president's favorable ratings began to sink.
Sen. John Kerry took up top GOP political strategist Karl Rove's call to make national security a central issue in the 2006 midterm elections, vowing Sunday, "I want to have that debate every single day."
A top House Democrat called for a swift U.S. withdrawal from Iraq on Thursday amid a White House counteroffensive against allegations that the Bush administration misled the country over prewar intelligence.
When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, he was worried about losing Protestant voters.
WASHINGTON IS HYPERVENTILATING OVER GOP THREATS to exercise the dread "nuclear option," an arcane procedural device by which Senate Republicans say they can ban any filibuster of conservative judic...
Sen. John Kerry seems to be putting himself into the political arena more earnestly and more often.
Politicians are like movie stars. They can make us laugh or cry or choke on our popcorn.
The good news for John Kerry is that he didn't pull an Al Gore.
A couple of years ago, after the program had already begun at a political dinner honoring the beloved and then fatally ill Joe Moakley, a Boston Democratic congressman, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry made a late and highly visible entrance, walking to his table at the front of the room. The evening's master of ceremonies refused to ignore the interruption. With perfect mock sympathy, he "explained": "You'll have to excuse the junior senator's tardiness; he got caught in front of a mirror." The crowd erupted in knowing laughter.
Exit polls overstated John Kerry's share of the vote on November 2, both nationally and in many states, because more Kerry supporters participated in the survey than Bush voters, according to an internal review of the exit-polling process released Wednesday.
"... if I am President, we're going to scour that tax code and make it simple and fair once and for all." -- John Kerry, September 2003
Coming after the 2000 cliffhanger and a negative, hard-fought campaign, it's no surprise that John Kerry's loss would leave Democrats deflated and searching for answers.
As you might have noticed, and been too kind to mention, my confident prediction of last week -- that on Jan. 20 John Kerry would give his first presidential inaugural address -- turned out to be 100 percent wrong.
In the wake of the presidential election, CNN.com asked its Campus Vibe correspondents to sum up the mood on their campus. Here's how they described the scene on the day after.
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President Bush, winning his second term, declared victory in the presidential election Wednesday, November 3, 2004. He was joined by Vice President Dick Cheney.
By the time Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry got to the eighth sentence of his concession speech, he'd said it all.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's running mate, Sen. John Edwards, told supporters early Wednesday that their campaign would hold out to see every vote counted.
An evenly divided electorate split sharply, and in some states decisively, on age, gender, religious, racial and ideological lines, according to national exit polls.
Posted: 2:15 a.m. ET From Sonia Moghe, Texas A&M University
A John Kerry victory might be good news for Wall Street, despite what your average banker tells you.
Stocks ended mixed Tuesday, abandoning gains near the close as investors reacted to speculation about the outcome of the presidential election.
A week ago, this column took a look at the stock market as a bellwether for the election.
With only a few days left in his presidential campaign, John Kerry was doing something you wouldn't expect he would have to: introducing himself.
Republicans are good for business and Democrats are good for the people.
In the waning days of the Campaign 2004 it's almost as if nothing has changed since March, when John Kerry clinched the Democratic nomination. Strongly divided partisans argue over the war in Iraq, the economy and who can best defend the country in television ads and speeches that ignore much of the country in favor of a few up-for-grabs states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. In battleground state polls, Kerry and Bush earn between 45 and 49% of the vote with a band of undecided voters who could tip either man over the top.
Oil prices traded sharply lower Monday, briefly taking light crude below $50 on speculation that a U.S. election win for Sen. John Kerry could ease the geopolitical friction that helped fuel this year's record-breaking rally.
WITH THE ELECTION LOOKING LIKE A DEAD HEAT IN the campaign's final weeks, you can't blame Bush or Kerry for retreating into fantasyland on the vital issue of prescription drug imports. Why speak th...
With less than 48 hours to go before the presidential election, Sen. John Kerry and President Bush reached out to voters in key states Sunday.
The presidential candidates devoted their attention to voters in key battleground states Saturday, pushing their domestic agendas and underscoring their strategies to fight terrorism.
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The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in the third quarter, the government reported Friday, up from the prior quarter but well below forecasts on Wall Street.
Running neck-and-neck just four days before the election, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry vied to be seen as the more optimistic candidate Friday, with each insisting he offers a brighter vision for the future.
President Bush holds a slim edge over Democrat John Kerry this week in the race for electoral votes, according to a new CNN survey that suggests the winner of Tuesday's election could be decided by eight states that are currently too close to call.
Bush-Cheney claim: "As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kerry was absent for 76 percent of the committee's hearings."
Pollster John Zogby surprised the political world back in April with a long-range prediction that John Kerry would defeat George W. Bush for president. On Monday, Zogby told me, he changed his mind.
CNN.com asked its users how President Bush and Sen. John Kerry should best use star power during the final days of campaigning.
You've gotta hand it to the Red Sox. Odds stacked against them, they vowed no surrender. With hungry hearts and a reason to believe, they took themselves to the promised land. They're tougher than the rest. Some might say they're ... born to run. All of Boston, a lucky town, was dancing in the dark last night. Glory days, indeed. Here in the Big Apple, well, they've seen better days.
Former President Bill Clinton will be back on the campaign trail Friday for a three-day trip to help get out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
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Sen. John Kerry will bring some star power on stage with him Thursday when rocker Bruce Springsteen joins the Democratic candidate at college campuses in Columbus, Ohio, and Madison, Wisconsin.
Sen. John Kerry is scheduled to campaign in Sioux City, Iowa, on Wednesday morning, where he is to give a speech tying together his themes of the economy, national security and criticism of Bush's performance as commander in chief.
President Bush and John Kerry both woke up today in Wisconsin. They'll both end the day in Iowa. Same states, same voters, two very different men, who'll spend every second of Tuesday showing those heartland battlegrounders just how far apart they really can be.
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President Bush and Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry will visit five key states Wednesday in their quest to pick up enough electoral votes to win election November 2.
The presidential race continues to be tight, with President Bush possibly holding a slight lead over Sen. John Kerry among likely voters, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup national opinion poll released Monday.
Americans will choose between John Kerry and George Bush when they vote for president Nov. 2, but another government official outranks them both as the most preferred boss among seven prominent leaders, according to a survey released Monday.
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry railed against "the unbelievable blindness, stubbornness, [and] arrogance" of the Bush administration Monday following reports that 380 tons of explosives are missing in Iraq.
CNN.com asked its users what issue President Bush and Sen. John Kerry should focus during the final week of campaigning.
The final week of the campaign has begun with both President Bush and Sen. John Kerry trying to reach undecided voters and motivate their respective party bases.
Newspapers in several states that could win or lose the election for either President Bush or Sen. John Kerry endorsed the candidates on Sunday, some of them providing surprises.
Sen. John Kerry and President Bush spent the weekend battling for votes in swing states as the presidential race wound down to the November 2 election.
Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry addressed the nation in the Democrats' weekly radio address Saturday, October 23, 2004.
Sen. John Kerry is targeting two Western battleground states Saturday, holding events in Colorado and New Mexico, where the Democratic presidential nominee is running neck and neck with President Bush.
Sen. John Kerry and President Bush challenged each other's ability to protect the nation from terrorism at rallies in different corners of the country Saturday.
President Bush maintains a thin lead over John Kerry in the battle for electoral votes in a race so tight that, despite a national focus on three larger swing states, could be decided by states with less pull in the Electoral College, like Iowa, Wisconsin or New Mexico, a new CNN analysis indicates.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of President John F. Kennedy joined Sen. John Kerry at a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Friday, the latest high-profile woman to stump with the Democratic candidate.
During the second presidential debate, John Kerry and George W. Bush locked horns on a variety of issues, foreign and domestic. One example was the question of abortion.
President Bush pulls a triple threat today, visiting three of the most important states (Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio) as his campaign releases a stark new TV ad hitting Sen. John Kerry on intelligence funding votes. How stark is the ad? Well, it's called "Wolves."
Speaking at a dinner event Thursday night, former President Bush joked that Barbara Bush is getting "steamed up" by the constant political attacks on her son.
Sen. John Kerry will spend his Friday in Wisconsin and Nevada, two swing states in which he narrowly trails President Bush.
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are making new efforts Friday to clarify their positions in showdown states that could tip the election.
John Kerry's promise in the last presidential debate that he would impose an abortion litmus test on Supreme Court selections deepened anxiety of pro-life Catholics.
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College students say they are much more interested in politics this year, more likely to identify with a party and more likely to vote, a new Harvard University study shows.
Meet John Kerry, regular guy. Just a baseball watchin', beer drinkin', geese huntin', gun totin', stem cell research supportin' guy. That's who we'll see today in Ohio, the jackpot battleground of regular guys.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With retirements looking more likely, the next president could help tip the balance of the nation's highest court, which now stands in a loose 5-4 conservative majority.
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Sinclair Broadcast Group announced Tuesday its television stations won't run in its entirety a documentary attacking Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and said reports that it had planned to do so were incorrect.
With two weeks to go until Americans go to the polls, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry concentrated their efforts on the campaign trail Tuesday in the showdown states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A day is a decade in politics, and a week is a lifetime.
At least there's no debating this: with roughly two weeks to go until the election, the presidential race is again locked in a virtual dead heat, according to a new TIME survey of likely voters.
As John Kerry paused and uttered the word lesbian in last week's presidential debate, the dials started to turn.
A campaign about Iraq and jobs abruptly shifts to the fraught territory of God, gays and guns. But will the values debate help Republicans this year?
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry sparred Monday over who would best protect the United States from terrorism as voters began casting early ballots in Florida, Texas, Colorado and Arkansas.
Sen. John Kerry talks health care today in Florida as early voting begins there. Kerry will deliver what aides call an "indictment" of President Bush, who heads to the state later today, and offer a proposal to deal with the flu vaccine shortage. (No word if Kerry will be bleary-eyed after the Red Sox win at 1:23 a.m. ET.)
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry seized on a report Sunday that President Bush would seek to quickly privatize Social Security in a second term.
Shortly after president Bush criticized his record on health care reform, Sen. John Kerry returned the favor on Saturday, attacking Bush's position on stem cell research.
Sen. John Kerry said Friday that he can't pay for all of the federal programs he's proposed by increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but instead will scale back federal agencies and eliminate corporate loopholes for additional money.
Like previous word wars, the presidential campaign's latest semantic semi-scandal centering on Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is the subject of furious spin.
The Kerry campaign called on Sinclair Broadcasting Friday to provide equal time to supporters of the Democratic presidential nominee after airing a 45-minute film attacking him.
The head of the nation's largest gay and lesbian Republican group slammed fellow Republicans Friday for "feigning outrage" over comments by Sen. John Kerry, and called on President Bush to "stop attacking gay families on the campaign trail."
"Get a smile on your faces, everybody!" President Bush told reporters on Air Force One last night. "Eighteen days left!"
In my opinion and according to a CNN post-debate snap poll, Sen. John Kerry won his third debate in a row Wednesday night and for the first time since this spring will probably become the unanimous front-runner in the race for the White House.
Apparently under strict orders from his wife, President Bush stood up straight last night and avoided those dreaded scowls. He smiled, smiled, smiled, even giggled at times. It was his best performance. It was John Kerry's worst. Kerry still won. He's 3-0.
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President Bush and Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry squared off Wednesday night for the third in their series of debates -- this time focusing on domestic issues, including the economy, jobs, taxes and same-sex marriage.
President Bush and Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry kicked off multistate campaign blitzes Thursday after hammering each other on domestic issues in their third presidential debate.
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