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Aftershocks: Jordan firing has Kerry in the spotlight
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Campaign manager Jim Jordan was fired by John Kerry and replaced with Mary Beth Cahill, the chief of staff to Sen. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts.
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CNN's Candy Crowley on Kerry's decision to replace his campaign manager.
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CNN's Dana Bash on Bush's cautious optimism about the economy amid encouraging news on employment rates.
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• SHAKE IT UP: Jim Jordan's ouster is the "latest round of upheaval in a campaign that just six months ago was viewed by many Democratic leaders as a well-organized machine that was rolling toward the nomination."
The New York Times: Kerry dismisses campaign chief
• CHANGING THE SUBJECT: Kerry uses Bush "Top Gun" video in latest commercial.
AP: Kerry ad uses carrier footage to ridicule President Bush
• "BOOZE CRUISE": Could some GOPers spend the New York convention at sea?
The New York Daily News: Ship coming in for GOP visit?
• The Kerry campaign's "changes" simply emphasize the "anguish" Howard Dean's frontrunner status is causing his '04 rivals.
The Boston Globe: A struggling campaign seeks jolt to stop Dean
• $$$$ BOOST: "With President Bush's reelection fundraising nearing the $100 million mark, several advisers said Monday that the new financial threat posed by former Vermont governor Howard Dean should encourage the president's donors to vault his campaign well past its ambitious fundraising goal of $170 million."
The Washington Post: Dean threat may help Bush up fundraising ante
• I'M NOT ASHAMED!: Instead of downplaying his umpteen years in Congress, Dick Gephardt is playing up his Washington experience.
The New York Times: In year of outsider, an insider holds his own
• "Lieberman strategists decided last month it was crucial for him to finish third in New Hampshire. So he all but pulled out of Iowa and began pouring people and resources into New Hampshire."
Hartford Courant: Lieberman counting on the don't-knows
• "With national security emerging as perhaps the top issue in the presidential campaign, Democratic candidates are courting veterans as they haven't in decades."
Philadelphia Inquirer: Candidates court veterans' vote
• I'M ONE OF YOU: Clark pledges to woo veterans in the South.
AP: Veterans may spur Clark in South Carolina
• READY TO PARTY?: The Democrats are struggling to drum up the big bucks for next summer's convention in Boston.
The Boston Globe: Funding slows for political parley
• NEW HAMPSHIRE ABANDONS PRIMARIES: Granite State sluggers have a change of heart.
The Union Leader: 'Primaries' fail to win New Hampshire's popular vote.
Compiled by Claire Brinberg and Sasha Johnson
