The US election is just little over two weeks away, and President Bush and
Senator John Kerry continue to trade attacks on the campaign trail. On Friday,
the two men focused on the battleground states of Iowa and Wisconsin in the
final run up to the election.
With three presidential debates behind them, the candidates are running neck
and neck in the final phase of this largely anticipated election. In his effort
to tar Kerry as a tax-and-spend liberal, Bush told a cheering crowd in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, that Kerry would weaken America at a time of danger and war.
US President George W. Bush said, "He has voted to raise taxes 98 times.
That's a vote for a tax increase about five times every year he has served in
the Senate. That qualifies as a pattern. He can run from his record, but he
cannot hide."
Kerry, in turn, speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, accused the President of
being an inflexible ideologue and having mismanaged Iraq and the war on
terrorism. Kerry detailed a list of mistakes made by Bush that has left the
economy lackluster and lowered the living standards for average Americans.
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry said, "This is the first president, first
president in 70 years, measure that, first president in 70 years to see income
decline in every year of his presidency. Remarkably, the president said he's
proud of his record."
The latest ABC tracking poll show Bush and Kerry tied at 48 percent each of
likely voters. This White House race has so far cost hundreds of millions of
dollars and provoked sharp divisions within the American electorate.
