GOP is looking
for a bigger Bush bounce
Dems were ‘almost Republican
in silencing extremes’
By Geoff
Earle
Sen. John Kerry orchestrated the smooth and unified convention
he needed, but still failed to get the bounce out of Boston
he wanted.
With the nation’s attention suddenly diverted by new
terror warnings, President Bush will get his own opportunity
this month to use his party’s convention to beat back
Kerry’s advance.
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Codel puts pressure
on Chavez
By Jonathan
E. Kaplan
Caracas, Venezuela — Several congressmen
arrived here yesterday on a 24-hour trip designed to persuade
President Hugo Chavez and his opponents to allow an Aug.
15 recall vote to proceed without violence and electoral
shenanigans.
“Our hope is just to have a basic, transparent, honest
election, and our plan is to tell him that,” Rep.
Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.) said here yesterday.
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Senate
leaders
push intelligence
Recommendations cite
key points of 9-11 commission
By Lauren
Shepherd
Ga.’s
Glenn a favorite
of Gingrich, Kemp
By Peter
Savodnik
Reader
contests
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry celebrates
after
accepting his party's nomination on Thursday night in
Boston.
Photo by Patrick G. Ryan
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Go-go ad spending binge
Bush, Kerry allies
set spending
to fill the TV darkness
By Alexander
Bolton
The Democratic
National Committee (DNC) and the Media Fund, a 527 group, will
spend $8.5 million on TV ads this week, twice as much as the
Bush-Cheney campaign is spending in key battleground states.
The DNC has bought $6 million worth of airtime in through Friday,
while the Media Fund, one of the two biggest Democratic Party-allied
soft-money groups, has purchased approximately $2.5 million
worth in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada and New Mexico.
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Big Apple security concerns
By Patrick O'Connor
Security experts and organizers say the Republican convention
in New York presents unique challenges after last week’s
relatively smooth Democratic convention in Boston.
The site, the city and the presence of a sitting president all
make Madison Square Garden much more difficult to defend than
FleetCenter in Boston, security experts
agreed, making it a more likely target of attack.
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