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Election Recycling: It's About Love Edition
•Administration encounters increasing fear of failure in Iraq;Bush'sleadership style increasingly criticized. Senior official: "There's overwhelming pressure with the Coalition Provisional Authority and the White House to deliver a successful Iraq transition, and Iraq is proving uncooperative." [ WP and WSJ ]
• Kerrystruggles for national coverage while White House dominates news cycle. [ WP ]
•White House promotes programs it tried to cut. [ NYT ]
• KerryblamesBushfor high gas prices. [ WP and NYT and BG ]
• Dean, Kerrybecome mutual admirers.Dean: "I certainly admired you for kicking my [expletive] in Iowa. . . You know, there wasn't a helluva lot of difference in all our platforms, really." [WP ]
• Bushagrees not to bypass Senate for judge appointments in pact with Democrats. [ WP and NYT ]
• Bushtries to increase Jewish support, backs Israel.Bush: "The United States is strongly committed, and I am strongly committed, to the security of Israel as a vibrant Jewish state. Israel is a democracy and a friend and has every right to defend itself from terror." [LAT and WP and WT ]
• BushrenominatesGreenspanfor 5th term. [ NYT and WSJ ]
• Kerryto meet withNadertoday;Kucinichwins 15 percent in Oregon primary. [ NYT and LAT and WT ]
• Laura Bushhits the trail. [ WP and USAT ]
•Gay marriage enters election fray. Voter: "It's about love, and there shouldn't be any boundaries to that." [ USAT ]
•Religious leaders lobby Senate to approve legislation to regulate gases that cause global climate change. [ WSJ ]
• Bushis subject of three times as many late-night jokes asKerry.[ LAT ]