IPS Inter Press Service - U.S. Elections 2004 - Superpower at the Polls
As predicted, the 2004 US election is reduced to a handful of "battleground states where" just hundreds of voters could decide the day and whether George W Bush or John Kerry is named president on Nov 2. The tight race raises the spectre of more "dirty tricks" of the kind that plagued Florida in 2000, and both the parties and civil society are mustering legal experts and activists like never before to monitor the polls. Jobs and health care aside, it comes down to the " war on terror." 'Keep trusting me' says Bush. 'I'd do it differently,' replies Kerry.
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