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January 20, 2005
Exit poll problems detailed in report
By Associated Press
NEW YORK - Two firms that conducted Election Day exit polls for major news organizations reported Wednesday that they found a number of problems with the way the polls were carried out last year, resulting in estimates that overstated John Kerry's share of the vote.

December 29, 2004
And after Ohio counts again ... Bush is still president
By Associated Press
TOLEDO, Ohio - Election officials finished the presidential recount in Ohio on Tuesday, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush's six-figure margin of victory in the state that gave him a second term.

December 24, 2004
130 votes decide Wash. governor race
By Associated Press
SEATTLE - Democrat Christine Gregoire won the Washington governor's race by 130 votes out of 2.9-million ballots cast, according to final recount results announced Thursday from Seattle's King County, the last of the state's 39 counties to report.

December 15, 2004
Court rejects counting ballots
By Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. - The state Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected the Democratic Party's request that previously rejected absentee and provisional ballots be included in the hand recount of Washington state's contested governor's race.

November 6, 2004
A mandate? It's not just a quibble
By BILL ADAIR
President Bush's claim to a blanket endorsement for his policies carries real political weight, even if it's hard to define.

November 6, 2004
Millionaire candidates learn they can't buy voters' hearts
By Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Of the 22 candidates who each spent more than $1-million of their own money trying to win their first election to Congress, only one made it.

November 6, 2004
The young did vote, but so did everybody
By wire services
Kenyon College student Maggie Hill waited in line for nearly 10 hours to vote for John Kerry, as hundreds of her classmates waited for one of only two voting booths.

November 5, 2004
Foreign election observers meet sneers, plaudits
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - In some quarters, they were seen as outside intruders trying to tell the United States how to run its affairs. They were welcomed and honored in others, even asked to pose for souvenir photographs.

November 4, 2004
A call to Unity
By BILL ADAIR and WES ALLISON
President Bush wins a second term, then joins challenger John Kerry in asking for an end to the electorate's acrimony.

November 4, 2004
Bewildered party soul-searches
By WES ALLISON
Despite their best efforts and a president they thought was vulnerable, Democrats were left reeling by voters.

November 4, 2004
Bush's victory speech
By Associated Press
A text of President Bush's victory speech on Wednesday, as transcribed by e-Media Millworks Inc.:

November 4, 2004
Convictions and hunches fueled the choice
By wire services
WASHINGTON - What motivated votes for President Bush and Sen. John Kerry? Everything from family values to an intense dislike of Bush to morals.

November 4, 2004
Conservatives tout gay marriage bans
By Associated Press
The results, some say, should inspire Congress to reconsider a federal ban. Gay activists vow to keep fighting for rights.

November 4, 2004
Charmed path carries Chicago lawyer to Senate
By Associated Press
CHICAGO - For a man whose first name means blessed, Barack Obama has truly had a blessed year.

November 3, 2004
Seven states ban same-sex marriages
By Associated Press
Voters in seven states approved constitutional amendments Tuesday to ban same-sex marriage, with similar results expected in most, possibly all, of the four other states considering such measures.

November 3, 2004
Governors races go down to the wire
By Associated Press
Voters dumped a Democratic governor in Indiana and forced a Republican incumbent in New Hampshire into a race for his political career as 11 states elected their top leaders Tuesday.

November 3, 2004
A night of caution, easy calls
By CHASE SQUIRES
Heading into Tuesday's countdown, the only thing the network and cable news anchors would promise was caution.

November 3, 2004
U.S. vote provokes intense interest
By Associated Press
BERLIN - People outside the United States could only watch, wait and vent as Americans lined up to vote Tuesday in an election that provoked an extraordinary degree of emotional involvement beyond U.S. borders.

November 1, 2004
Even in voting debacle, overturn chances slim
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN
Come what may, judges are reluctant to decide the nation's future, legal experts say.

November 1, 2004
Vote, then die. Will it count? Depends
By Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. - In what would be her last conscious act, 90-year-old Trixie Porter gripped a pen in her weak, trembling hand, checked the candidates of her choice and scrawled a squiggled signature on her absentee ballot.

October 30, 2004
Military vote seen as thorny problem
By Associated Press
During the chaotic 2000 election, thousands of troops overseas voted for president, only to have their ballots rejected. Others did not receive ballots at all. And some found the entire process confusing.

October 27, 2004
New systems better, but still not perfect
By JENNIFER LIBERTO
Optical scan voting machines are an upgrade from punch cards, both sides agree. But in case of a recount, they could still be open to interpretation.

October 23, 2004
Ballot battles rise in the courts
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, which settled the last presidential election, may be drawn into this one even before Election Day.

October 5, 2004
Stem cells, tax cuts take spotlight
By Compiled from Times wires
PHILADELPHIA - Democratic nominee John Kerry accused President Bush of being a leader who "turns his back on science" as he promised Monday to lift the stem-cell research restrictions imposed by Bush three years ago.

September 12, 2004
From now on, Election Day will last two weeks
By ADAM C. SMITH
The calendar pegs Election Day as Nov. 2, but that's not how a lot of Florida politicos see it.

August 26, 2004
Judge rejects plea, so protest canceled
By wire services
NEW YORK - A judge rejected a last-minute plea from antiwar activists seeking to hold a large rally in Central Park the day before the Republican convention, saying they were too late.

August 24, 2004
Report calls for revised debates
By wire services
Several groups say the Commission on Presidential Debates is partisan and undermines democracy.

August 20, 2004
Democrat Zell Miller to deliver GOP's keynote address
By wire services
WASHINGTON - Same convention hall. Same keynote speaker. Different party.

August 13, 2004
Great-grandmother walks to boost long-shot candidacy
By Associated Press
DUBLIN, N.H. - "I am not a nice old lady," Doris "Granny D" Haddock says, wheezing slightly as she walks up a road near her home. The 94-year-old relishes adventure and near-impossible challenges - once walking across the country despite emphysema brought on by a half-century of smoking.

August 11, 2004
Georgia primary has historic result
By wire services
First-term Rep. Denise Majette easily defeated a millionaire businessman Tuesday to capture the Democratic nomination for an open Senate seat, becoming the first black candidate in Georgia ever nominated to the Senate.

August 9, 2004
President Bush plans three Panhandle stops Tuesday
By wire services
PENSACOLA - President Bush plans to campaign with Arizona Sen. John McCain on Tuesday in the military-rich Panhandle.

July 29, 2004
Pro-Bush crew bids to offset Kerry fans
By JONI JAMES
Florida Leadership Council leaders want to fight "distortions" propagated against President Bush.

July 28, 2004
Keep 9/11 panel on the job, Kerry says
By Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Tuesday that the Sept. 11 commission should continue working an additional 18 months to ensure its proposed reforms are adopted, a challenge embraced by the bipartisan panel.

July 27, 2004
Bush's rough new exercise
By Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush charged up punishing climbs and down steep dirt paths on his high-performance bike Monday, at one point sailing over the handlebars and landing flat on his back.

July 26, 2004
Polls foretell tight race for president
By Associated Press
One survey suggests that Ralph Nader may draw Florida votes from John Kerry.

July 24, 2004
Bush tries to sway black vote
By wire services
Shouts of "Amen!" are as prevalent as guffaws as he asks black voters to consider whether Democrats take them for granted.

July 22, 2004
Bush zeroes in on Jewish vote
By ADAM C. SMITH
The president is counting on his support of Israel to win over a voting bloc that has traditionally gone to Democrats.

July 22, 2004
Bush begins to lay out agenda at a gathering of major donors
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush sketched out a second term domestic agenda Wednesday that would shift focus to improving high school education and expanding access to health care, and charged that Democratic rival John Kerry would raise taxes - the "wrong medicine" for the economy, Bush said.

July 21, 2004
Foreign adviser to Kerry resigns
By Associated Press
Sandy Berger could return to the campaign once the FBI completes its investigation into missing classified documents.

July 21, 2004
Congress to add $50-million for conventions
By wire services
WASHINGTON - Congress is on the brink of granting an additional $50-million in federal funds to both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to defray escalating security costs. Split equally between the two conventions, the money would double the $25-million the government has already given each city to guard against a potential terrorist attack.

July 20, 2004
GOP mobilizer scours state for lost voters
By ADAM C. SMITH
Famous for making the Christian Coalition a force, Ralph Reed sets out to sweep the Southeast for Bush.

July 16, 2004
Bush skips NAACP, but will talk to Urban League
By wire services
WASHINGTON - "Hostile rhetoric" from NAACP leaders is to blame for President Bush's rejection of that organization, the White House said Thursday.

July 15, 2004
Bush team to focus on suburbs
By wire services
WAUKESHA, Wis. - President Bush woke up in downtown Milwaukee on Wednesday, but his campaign bus promptly headed for the suburbs and even farther out - Republican territory where aides believe his re-election hopes can flourish this year.

July 15, 2004
Rising star tapped for keynote
By Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Eager to showcase new faces at the party's national convention, Democrats have picked just about the newest face around to deliver the keynote address: Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama.

July 14, 2004
Big names to open convention
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Former presidents, one-time rivals, military veterans and family members will help tell the story of Democrat John Kerry as he prepares to accept his party's presidential nomination at the national convention in late July.

July 13, 2004
Bush broadly defends Iraq invasion
By Associated Press
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - President Bush defended his decision to invade Iraq even as he conceded on Monday that investigators had not found the weapons of mass destruction that he had warned the country possessed.

July 13, 2004
Kerry makes pitch for Hispanic votes in ad
By wire services
BOSTON - Sen. John Kerry appealed to some of his party's core constituencies in his hometown Monday, chiding President Bush at a breakfast for black and Hispanic voters for skipping a gathering of the NAACP in Philadelphia this week, and telling several hundred women at a fundraising luncheon that he shares the values that are central to their lives.

July 11, 2004
The Edwards effect
By BILL ADAIR and WES ALLISON
In 2000, both major parties chased the "soccer mom" demographic. Will John Edwards attract suburban female votes for John Kerry in November.

July 11, 2004
Gov. Bush tries to deliver bigger slice of minority vote to his brother
By Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE - Seeking to find ways of attracting black Floridians who overwhelmingly voted against his brother four years ago, Gov. Jeb Bush on Saturday kicked off a campaign that aims to bridge the traditionally wide gap between Republicans and minority voters.

July 11, 2004
Bush calls for ban on same-sex marriage
By wire services
WASHINGTON - President Bush said legalizing gay marriage would redefine the most fundamental institution of civilization and that a constitutional amendment is needed.

 
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