Sen. John Kerry’s pitch for reforming immigration laws appears to have backfired in Arizona as Hispanic voters and registered independents have shifted support away from the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, according to a statewide poll released Thursday.

July 16, 2004

This country has never been particularly good about finding roles for its ex-presidents — and not at all for its defeated presidential candidates. Generally their fate is a quiet kind of exile. Has anyone seen Al Gore lately?

July 15, 2004

Sen. Ted Kennedy pitched his fellow Massachusetts senator’s presidential campaign Friday in Phoenix, telling seniors Sen. John Kerry will protect Social Security and promising high school students Kerry will fight for better schools.

WASHINGTON - President Bush won four more years in the White House on Wednesday, pocketing a public concession from Democrat John Kerry that closed out a loud and long campaign fought over the war on terror and the economy.

John Edwards, John Kerry's pick for vice president, will bring likability, special appeal in the South and a gift for oratory to the Democratic ticket, even if he does have negatives, such as the analytically flawed two-Americas theme he struck in primary contests and relative inexperience.

PHILADELPHIA - A smiling, energetic former President Clinton campaigned for Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Monday just seven weeks after undergoing heart surgery, telling a crowd of thousands that President Bush and Republicans are trying to "scare the undecided voters" away from the Democratic nominee.

If Sen. John Kerry becomes president on the basis of the shameful campaign tactics he has been employing in recent days, bitterness and division will attend him. He will have lost credibility with many serious-minded people whose support he will need, and many Republicans may be so distrustful as to want to destroy him.

John Kerry, back at work in the Senate this week for the first time since Nov. 2, has $45 million yet unspent from his run for the presidency and suggested he may spend it on another race for the White House.

August 5, 2004

October 13, 2004

Beware of online gossipmongers and of journalists who lunge too avidly at the red meat they toss into the cage.

Republicans are claiming that if Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry had had his way 20 years ago, the Apache attack helicopter never would have taken off from its production line in Mesa.