Schmooze to the top
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Presidential races perplex a nation for much of the year prior to voting. Every term seems to get more and more interesting as the candidates schmooze the public into thinking they will make the world and their lives just a little bit better. This year's race is no different, as the major party candidates are already chosen and poised to make this election as close as Bush versus Gore in 2000.
President Bush is locked in as the Republican candidate simply because he is already the President. He has also shown that he has what it takes to win a close election. His conservative policies put him on the opposite side of the political spectrum from Senator John Kerry, the Democratic nominee. Senator Kerry is almost sure to win the nomination by blowing out his closet opponent, John Edwards, in almost every primary from coast-to-coast (Thomma, 1). America is nearly evenly divided into conservatives and liberals; this means the only way to get elected is to pull the swing votes of those standing in the middle of the party political spectrum (Broder, 1).
Senator Kerry has and is building his Presidential platform on what he says are major blunders by President Bush. Three million jobs were lost under the Bush administration, which Kerry says he will remedy within the first 500 days of his administration ("Restoring", 1)...