<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>John Kerry: News &amp; Videos about John Kerry - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/John_Kerry</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about John Kerry from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:13:57 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>John Kerry: News &amp; Videos about John Kerry - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/John_Kerry</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about John Kerry from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>John Kerry's Daughter Won't Be Prosecuted for DUI</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20322149,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20322149,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>The L.A. City Attorney cites a lack of evidence that Alexandra Kerry was driving drunk</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>John Kerry's Daughter Arrested for DUI</title><link>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20321196,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</link><guid>http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20321196,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn</guid><description>Alexandra Kerry is booked following a traffic stop in Hollywood</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: John Kerry's role -- watchdog or lapdog?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/19/zelizer.kerry.afghan.troops/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/19/zelizer.kerry.afghan.troops/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>During the recent interview that Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry gave to CNN, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee argued that it was still too early for the United States to commit more troops to Afghanistan.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry wary of raising Afghanistan troop levels too quickly</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/17/kerry.afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/17/kerry.afghanistan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John Kerry cautioned against President Obama's plan to raise troop levels in Afghanistan at a time when he says the country's government remains in turmoil over last month's national elections.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry to clarify aid bill after Pakistani opposition</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/13/kerry.pakistan.aid/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/13/kerry.pakistan.aid/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday he will offer a new explanation and clarification of a $7.5-billion Pakistan aid bill that has prompted a firestorm of anti-American sentiment inside Pakistan.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: News can outlast newspapers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/11/zelizer.news/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/11/zelizer.news/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Last week, Sen. John Kerry convened a discussion of the troubled state of journalism in America by way of a hearing by the Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet.</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 17:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. officials: Hamas slipped note to Obama via senator</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/20/kerry.letter/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/20/kerry.letter/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas passed Sen. John Kerry a letter for President Obama while Kerry visited Gaza on Thursday, senior State Department officials said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Is an 'October surprise' still possible?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/31/october.surprise/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/31/october.surprise/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It's Halloween on Friday, but campaign aides to Barack Obama and John McCain may be spooked for another reason: Events that dominated the news right before the previous two presidential elections may have been game-changers.</description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. senators forced to make emergency landing in Afghanistan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/senators.emergency.landing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/senators.emergency.landing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A helicopter carrying three U.S. senators was forced to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan Thursday, military and congressional sources tell CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Dems Finally Get Religion</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1713269,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1713269,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A new book shows why religion has cost the Democrats elections -- and how they've learned from their mistakes
</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stimulus deal: What's in it for small biz</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/smbusiness/stimulus_smb.fsb/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/24/smbusiness/stimulus_smb.fsb/index.htm</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Your opinion:  Reaction to police using Taser on student</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews/09/20/student.tasered.your.opinion/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews/09/20/student.tasered.your.opinion/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gingrich vs. Kerry: Shoot-out at the climate change corral </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/10/gingrich.kerry/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/10/gingrich.kerry/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry decides against 2008 presidential run</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/24/kerry.2008/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/24/kerry.2008/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:55:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ivins: Keeping our eyes on the ball</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/03/ivins.election/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/03/ivins.election/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Troops respond to 'Jon Carry' with plea for 'halp'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/02/kerry.photo/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/02/kerry.photo/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry apologizes for 'misinterpreted' words</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/02/kerry.remarks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/02/kerry.remarks/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: Who should apologize and why</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/kerry.feedback/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/kerry.feedback/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush on Kerry remark: U.S. troops are 'plenty smart'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/31/kerry.mccain/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/31/kerry.mccain/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: Swiftboating has become a hate term</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/tyrrell.swiftboating/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/tyrrell.swiftboating/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyrrell: Not just a Republican war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/13/tyrrell.unity/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/13/tyrrell.unity/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry assails 'incompetent' White House</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/22/kerry/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/22/kerry/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry: I'd have us in a 'different place'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/17/cnna.kerry/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/17/cnna.kerry/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The role of Catholic voters</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/08/catholic.voters/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/08/catholic.voters/index.html</guid><description>When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, he was worried about losing Protestant voters.</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Would Mr. Smith please go to Washington?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/04/04/8255934/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/04/04/8255934/index.htm</guid><description>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...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sen. John Kerry back in the fight</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/16/john.kerry/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/16/john.kerry/index.html</guid><description>Sen. John Kerry seems to be putting himself into the political arena more earnestly and more often.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Political Academy Awards</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/25/awards/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/25/awards/index.html</guid><description>Politicians are like movie stars. They can make us laugh or cry or choke on our popcorn.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>An early eye on 2008 </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/31/early.2008.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/31/early.2008.tm/index.html</guid><description>The good news for John Kerry is that he didn't pull an Al Gore.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The John Kerry I never knew</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/shields.kerry/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/24/shields.kerry/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report suggests changes in exit poll methodology</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/exit.polls/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/19/exit.polls/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>What the economy needs is simpler taxes</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/11/15/8191076/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/11/15/8191076/index.htm</guid><description>"... 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 </description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>What happens to the losing team? </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/08/losing.party.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/08/losing.party.tm/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Democrats' melancholy trip</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/08/dems.trip/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/08/dems.trip/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Students' mood ranges from elation to depression</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/04/election.reaction/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/04/election.reaction/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Computer scientists want to review e-votes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/04/thu.hot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/04/thu.hot/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: 'New term is a new opportunity to reach out' to the nation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/bush.transcript/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/bush.transcript/index.html</guid><description>President Bush, winning his second term, declared victory in the presidential election Wednesday, November 3, 2004. He was joined by Vice President Dick Cheney.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Regret, no remorse in Kerry's call for unity</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/kerry/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/kerry/index.html</guid><description>By the time Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry got to the eighth sentence of his concession speech, he'd said it all.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry camp: 'We will fight for every vote'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/kerry.edwards/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/kerry.edwards/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 07:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Exit polls: Electorate is sharply divided</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/02/prez.analysis/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/02/prez.analysis/index.html</guid><description>An evenly divided electorate split sharply, and in some states decisively, on age, gender, religious, racial and ideological lines, according to national exit polls.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 00:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Campus Vibe Blog</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/blog/11/02/campus.blog/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/blog/11/02/campus.blog/index.html</guid><description>Posted: 2:15 a.m. ET  From Sonia Moghe, Texas A&amp;amp;M University</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The bullish case for Kerry</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/02/markets/election_kerrymarkets/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/02/markets/election_kerrymarkets/index.htm</guid><description>A John Kerry victory might be good news for Wall Street, despite what your average banker tells you.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks get election jitters</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/02/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/02/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks ended mixed Tuesday, abandoning gains near the close as investors reacted to speculation about the outcome of the presidential election.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks: What the election means</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/01/commentary/mkcommentary/sivy/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/01/commentary/mkcommentary/sivy/index.htm</guid><description>A week ago, this column took a look at the stock market as a bellwether for the election.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 22:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Meet Senator Kerry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/01/kerry.introduction.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/01/kerry.introduction.tm/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry: Who's better for biz?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/01/commentary/breakingviews/bviews_cox/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/01/commentary/breakingviews/bviews_cox/index.htm</guid><description>Republicans are good for business and Democrats are good for the people.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Winners and losers of 2004</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/01/winners.losers/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/01/winners.losers/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Oil falls as speculators favor Kerry</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/01/markets/oil/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/11/01/markets/oil/index.htm</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Both candidates are on a drug trip to fantasyland</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/11/01/8189574/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/11/01/8189574/index.htm</guid><description>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...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2004 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry sprint to the finish</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/31/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/31/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry focus on terror fight on the trail</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/30/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/30/election.main/index.html</guid><description>The presidential candidates devoted their attention to voters in key battleground states Saturday, pushing their domestic agendas and underscoring their strategies to fight terrorism.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2004 06:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>More evidence on the missing Iraqi explosives</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/29/fri.hot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/29/fri.hot/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GDP growth weaker than expected</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/29/news/economy/gdp/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/29/news/economy/gdp/index.htm</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry claim 'hope' as their own</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/29/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/29/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN analysis:  Eight states too close to call</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/electoral.votes/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/electoral.votes/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN Fact Check: Attacks on Kerry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/kerry.factcheck/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/kerry.factcheck/index.html</guid><description>Bush-Cheney claim: "As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Kerry was absent for 76 percent of the committee's hearings."</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>George W's women</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/bush.women/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/bush.women/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>You be the strategist: Advice on star power</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/user.feedback.starpower/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/user.feedback.starpower/index.html</guid><description>CNN.com asked its users how President Bush and Sen. John Kerry should best use star power during the final days of campaigning.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Born to run</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/thu/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/thu/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Clinton hits campaign trail for Kerry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/kerry.thursday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/kerry.thursday/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Independent ads plucking at heart strings</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/27/wed.hot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/27/wed.hot/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Springsteen joins Kerry in Midwest</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/27/kerry.wednesday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/27/kerry.wednesday/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry: Bush has failed to secure America</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/kerry.tuesday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/kerry.tuesday/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parallel course</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/tue/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/tue/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidates claim themselves best to lead war on terror</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/tue.hot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/tue.hot/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidates trade jabs in Wisconsin</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/26/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poll finds tight race, with little apparent change</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/national.poll/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/national.poll/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Top boss? Not Bush or Kerry...</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/25/news/newsmakers/best_boss/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/25/news/newsmakers/best_boss/index.htm</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry: Missing explosives show Bush's 'incompetence'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/kerry.explosives/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/kerry.explosives/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN.com users contribute to 'You be the strategist'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/user.feedback.issues/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/user.feedback.issues/index.html</guid><description>CNN.com asked its users what issue President Bush and Sen. John Kerry should focus during the final week of campaigning.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidates bid for voter turnout</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry get support from swing-state newspapers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/24/endorsements/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/24/endorsements/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry, Bush target swing states</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/24/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/24/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2004 06:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Transcript: Kerry's radio address</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/23/kerry.transcript/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/23/kerry.transcript/index.html</guid><description>Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry addressed the nation in the Democrats' weekly radio address Saturday, October 23, 2004.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry stumps in Western states</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/23/kerry.saturday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/23/kerry.saturday/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidates battle over national security </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/23/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/23/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2004 04:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Small states could swing Electoral College</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/electoral.map/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/electoral.map/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Courting women voters</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/22/women.voters/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/22/women.voters/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidates clash on abortion law</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/22/colb.abortion/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/22/colb.abortion/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cher, Rosie and the triple play</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/fri/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/fri/index.html</guid><description>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."</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Former President Bush jokes that wife 'steamed up' over attacks on son</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/smith.dinner/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/smith.dinner/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry promotes science, technology as job engines</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/kerry.friday/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/kerry.friday/index.html</guid><description>Sen. John Kerry will spend his Friday in Wisconsin and Nevada, two swing states in which he narrowly trails President Bush.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry work to clarify their stances</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/22/election.main/index.html</guid><description>President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are making new efforts Friday to clarify their positions in showdown states that could tip the election.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Catholic wars</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/catholic.wars/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/catholic.wars/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Some may register and vote on Election Day</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/thu.hot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/thu.hot/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poll: College students moving toward Kerry</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/college.poll/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/college.poll/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>John Kerry, regular guy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/thu/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/21/thu/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Election could tip balance of Supreme Court</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/election.scotus/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/election.scotus/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Candidates examine local issues as election nears</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/wed.hot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/wed.hot/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sinclair: Stations won't run entire anti-Kerry film</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/sinclair.kerry/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/20/sinclair.kerry/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry stump in showdown states</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/19/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Losers make excuses</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/losers/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/losers/index.html</guid><description>A day is a decade in politics, and a week is a lifetime.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why its so close</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/so.close.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/so.close.tm/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who gets to talk about Mary Cheney?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/mary.cheney.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/mary.cheney.tm/index.html</guid><description>As John Kerry paused and uttered the word lesbian in last week's presidential debate, the dials started to turn.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How the wedge issues cut</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/wedge.issues.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/wedge.issues.tm/index.html</guid><description>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?</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Kerry spar over terrorism</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/election.main/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/election.main/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Florida votes early</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/mon/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/mon/index.html</guid><description>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.)</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry: Bush would break promise on Social Security</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/17/press.social.security/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/17/press.social.security/index.html</guid><description>Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry seized on a report Sunday that President Bush would seek to quickly privatize Social Security in a second term.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry vows to expand stem-cell research</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/16/kerry.radio/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/16/kerry.radio/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 14:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kerry: Closing loopholes will help fund promises</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/15/kerry.interview/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/15/kerry.interview/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Spinning semantics</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/15/spinning.semantics/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/15/spinning.semantics/index.html</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>