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Senator Barbara Boxer of California has told Progressive Democrats of America that she will stand with the members of the Congressional Black Caucus to challenge the electoral vote from Ohio. |
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Democrat Christine Gregoire took a ten vote lead over Republican Dino Rossi in the race for governor in Washington State. She'll claim an even wider margin because the State Supreme Court ruled that more than 700 belatedly discovered King County ballots shall be counted. |
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Comptroller General David Walker, with the Government Accountability Office, announces an investigation into voting iirregularities during the November 2nd US Presidential Election. He cautioned that the GAO cannot enforce the law if voting irregularities are found, noting that state officials regu ... |
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The resignation of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is announced, as expected, a day after his boss and close friend, Colin Powell resigned as US Secretary of State. |
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The state of Ohio will recount ballots cast in the Nov. 2 presidential election given that the Green and Libertarian parties raised more than the $113,600 required to fund such a process |
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Senior Washington officials are saying that US President George W Bush has chosen Condoleezza Rice to be the new secretary of state. |
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U.S. Republicans continue to berate Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) for the furor he created last week when he appeared to warn President Bush not to select Supreme Court nominees who oppose abortion rights. |
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Andrew Veal, a 25 year-old who worked at the University of Georgia, shoots himself to death at the World Trade Center site in New York City, as a protest against the election of George W. Bush. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found |
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French President Jacques Chirac expresses his dismay at President Bush's re-election, saying that "It is evident that Europe, now more than ever, must strengthen its unity and dynamism when faced with this great world power. More than ever, we must reinforce Europe politically and economically." |
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White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card announced to tired Bush-Cheney supporters at the Reagan Federal Building and International Trade Center that the Bush campaign is convinced the president has won re-election with a victory over Sen. John Kerry. Technically, the state of Ohio remains too close ... |
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Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry concedes the battleground state of Ohio and the election to President George W. Bush. |
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Cincinnati, rules on the morning of election day that Republicans can place thousands of people inside polling places to challenge voters' eligibility. |
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On a record turn-out election day, several US polling stations experience embarrassing problems. Tension is particularly high in Ohio, a key battleground state, and in Cleveland a Democratic official claimed to have been thrown out of a church basement by a screaming poll judge before another told ... |
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U.S. Senator Tom Daschle (D, SD) files a complaint that Native Americans are being intimidated at the polls. |
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According to the FOX News Opinion Dynamics poll, 48% of likely voters back Kerry, 46% Bush, and 1% support independent candidate Ralph Nader with 5% undecided. |
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U.S. District Court judge, Susan J. Dlott in Cincinnati, issues a ruling that effectively ends efforts by Republicans in Ohio to challenge the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters in one of the most closely contested states in this year's presidential race.
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President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry participated in a "town-hall-style" debate |
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CBS News and Dan Rather apologize for their failure to question the source of Bush service documents. |
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US President George W Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry announce in a joint statement that three televised debates will be held in the run-up to the November 2nd election. |
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CBS anchor Dan Rather acknowledges that there are serious questions about the authenticity of the documents he used to question President Bush's National Guard record on "60 Minutes." |
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Philip Bouffard, a forensic document examiner in Ohio, had originally expressed suspicions about the Bush documents in an interview with the New York Times. He now believes the documents could have been prepared on an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter available at the time. In fact, one such raise ... |
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Experts consulted by a range of news organizations pointed out typographical and formatting questions about four documents as they considered the possibility that they were forged. The widow of the National Guard officer whose signature is on the bottom of the documents also disputed their authentic ... |
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Recently uncovered documents show that George W. Bush failed to meet standards of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, that he refused a direct order and that his superiors were in a state of turmoil over how to evaluate his performance after he was suspended from flying The White H ... |
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President Bush emerges from his New York convention with a nine-point lead over Democrat John F. Kerry among likely voters, the first time during the campaign a majority has favored the incumbent, according to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll. |
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Retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier, who served as a volunteer adviser to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, is terminated after appearing in an anti-Kerry advertisement for the 527 group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The latest ad, a 30-second spot released Friday, uses segments from Kerry's te ... |
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William Rood, an editor at the Chicago Tribune, writes in the Sunday's edition: "Kerry's critics, armed with stories I know to be untrue, have charged that the accounts of what happened [in 1969] were overblown. The critics have taken pains to say they're not trying to cast doubts on the merit of wh ... |
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International observers will come from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to monitor the presidential election in November. |
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FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll shows Kerry Leads Bush 48% to 43%. The CBS News poll shows corresponding results. |
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Democratic Presidential hopeful John F. Kerry gets only a small bounce following the Democratic National Convention held in Boston, Massachusetts the previous week. |
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Baraka Obama, Democratic Senate candidate from Illinois, delivers the keynote address at the Democratic Convention in Boston. He argues against the "politics of cynicism" dividing America into liberal and conservative and beseeches the nation to reject the "spin masters and negative ad peddlers" who ... |
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