Election Recycling: Long Weekend's Starting Early Edition
•Kerry pledges to form alliances, combat terror: "We will use every resource of our power to destroy." [WP and NYT and LAT]
• 67 percent of Americans worry about Iraq, majority angry but still hopeful: "We got Saddam out of there. But I think there's just as bad people in the rest of the world. So, for all the mess, what have we got out of it?" [WP]
•Bush promotes electronic medical records: "It lets these docs do their jobs; it eases the minds of the patients." [WP]
• Slow economic growth in Ohio could hurt Bush. [LAT]
• Gay Councilman leaves local Republican Party after losing delegate seat for opposing Bush. [WP]
•Bush mixes political and official duties to save money. [LAT]
•Kerry's foreign policy team is Clinton's and then some. Gelb: "The ideas they bring to the table are basically ideas that worried the American people for the last 20 years - whether Democrats are clear-sighted enough, tough enough." [NYT]
• Some Democrats see a reverse of 1994. [NYT]