<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Elections</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/elections?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><description>Elections</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Partisan Polarization Intensified in 2004 Election]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7793-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7793-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Political polarization is a continuing trend that has defined voting behavior for most of the past decade and that has left the two major parties increasingly homogenized and partisan.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carter to Head Elections Panel]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64340-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64340-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former president Jimmy Carter will lead a bipartisan commission to examine problems with the U.S. election system, according to American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Would 'Weaken' U.S., Bush Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10573-2004Oct6.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10573-2004Oct6.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The president leveled his toughest attack on John F. Kerry, warning that his Democratic challenger "would weaken America and make the world more dangerous."]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Courting N.Va.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62412-2004Sep4.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62412-2004Sep4.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Democratic presidential campaign is juicing up its investment this fall in Loudoun and its neighbors along Interstates 66 and 95.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N.Y. Judge Rules Against Protest in Central Park]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33137-2004Aug25.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33137-2004Aug25.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the Republican National Convention just days away, a judge ruled Wednesday that antiwar organizers could not hold a massive rally in Central Park on Sunday.]]></description><author> Michelle Garcia</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Assails Kerry on Iraq Remarks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53200-2004Aug10.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53200-2004Aug10.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush taunted rival John F. Kerry, seeking to put his challenger on the defensive over the central foreign policy issue of the election as he campaigned through heavily Republican territory in Florida.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Makes an Appeal to Blacks and Hispanics]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14416-2004Jun29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14416-2004Jun29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[John F. Kerry reached out to African American and Latino audiences Tuesday, asking them to help him defeat President Bush while outlining proposals to raise college graduation rates, boost math and science education among women and minorities and provide a path to citizenship for legal immigrants.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad War Heats Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1278-2004May29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1278-2004May29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival John F. Kerry are taking their messages to popular Web sites, in hopes of reaching the millions of Americans who use the Internet.]]></description><author> Brian Faler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Stresses Security]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1443-2004May29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1443-2004May29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. John F. Kerry indicated that as president he would play down the promotion of democracy worldwide as a leading goal and focus instead on other objectives that he said are more central to the United States' security.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[War Means Jobs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15952-2004May10.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15952-2004May10.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[All across the country the economy is picking up as demand for war-related goods feeds the pace.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political Battleground in Middle America]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34431-2004Mar29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34431-2004Mar29.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Voters in Iowa are at the center of a struggle, torn between supporting the military and growing concerns about the course of events in Iraq.]]></description><author> David Maraniss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undecided Voters Key in New Hampshire]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38731-2004Jan22.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38731-2004Jan22.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As Democratic candidates prepare for a crucial debate in the New Hampshire primary Thursday night, polls show large numbers of undecided voters could determine the outcome.]]></description><author> William Branigin and Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean's Gains Questioned]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35153-2003Dec27.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35153-2003Dec27.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rarely has a presidential front-runner begun an election year with as many questions swirling around him as Howard Dean, the man who rewrote the rules in presidential politics the past 12 months.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Press, Bad Press]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16221-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16221-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) is using The Washington Post to score some points. So is Howard Dean, but in a very different way.]]></description><author> Howard Kurtz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aides Swap Charges of Influence Peddling, Profiteering]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62490-2003Dec13.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62490-2003Dec13.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Top aides to the campaigns of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) and retired  Gen. Wesley K. Clark Friday exchanged harsh charges of special interest influence and profiteering from government experience.]]></description><author> Thomas B. Edsall</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gephardt  Challenges Dean on Enron Ties]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62466-2003Dec13.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62466-2003Dec13.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rep. Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) Friday called on Democratic rival Howard Dean to release all records detailing any dealings Dean had with  Enron Corp. during the 1990s, when the former Vermont governor was offering incentives to corporations to set up insurance operations in his state.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Defends His Right to Criticize Bush]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40008-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40008-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democrat John F. Kerry on Friday challenged the notion that questioning President Bush is unpatriotic and defended his right to criticize, saying he left "some blood on a battlefield that President Bush never left anywhere."]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean Expanding His Reach]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40007-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40007-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Howard Dean, who leads all his rivals in fundraising, may be the only candidate with the resources to carry his campaign beyond teh intensely personal campaigning in New Hampshire and into the mroe wholesale style of politiking required in the rest of the country.]]></description><author> Edward Walsh</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Ad Criticizes Democrats On Defense]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4956-2003Nov21.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4956-2003Nov21.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush's reelection campaign will contrast his doctrine of preemptive strikes on terrorists with what RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie called Democrats' willingness to wait for the aftermath of an attack on the United States.]]></description><author> Mike Allen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Details Health, Lobbying Priorities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4957-2003Nov21.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4957-2003Nov21.html?nav=rss_politics/elections</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:31:51 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), seeking to refocus his presidential campaign message, said Friday his first legislative priority as president would be to expand access to affordable health care, and pledged to challenge the power of special interests by reinstating a five-year ban on lobbying for former government officials.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item></channel></rss>
