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Kerry prepares for a two-front race
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Double vision: Sen. John Kerry has his eyes on two prizes -- beating fellow Democrats in the primaries and ousting President Bush in November.
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CNN's Kelly Wallace reports as the campaign heads to Wisconsin.
Wesley Clark talks with CNN's Aaron Brown about his campaign for the White House.
CNN's Brian Todd on the renewed attention to Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam-era antiwar protests.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
• TWO-FRONT WAR: Fresh off big victories in Virginia and Tennessee, John Kerry began preparing for a two-front war, laying preliminary plans for a general election contest with President Bush while keeping his main focus on extending a winning streak that has put him in command of the Democratic presidential race.
The Washington Post: Kerry team sneaks a peek at November
• DEAN BLASTS KERRY: The former front-runner says the current one condones fund-raising so 'corrupt' that he's little better than Bush, calling Edwards a better choice.
The Los Angeles Times: Dean ratchets up the rhetoric against Kerry
• UNLIKELY DUO: Interviews with both campaigns indicate a Kerry-Edwards ticket is unlikely, and advisers to both men lack the excitement for such a pairing that some voters feel.
The Boston Globe: Kerry-Edwards ticket unlikely, aides say
• BUSH ON OFFENSIVE: The White House has begun to aggressively fight back against Democratic criticism of the war in Iraq, President Bush's service in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War and his economic record -- after passively enduring political shots for weeks.
The Washington Times: Democrats force Bush onto offense
• EDWARDS PRESSES ON: A day after being trounced in two Southern primaries, John Edwards urged Wisconsin voters on Wednesday not to write him off and declared that he would appeal to a broader swath of voters than John Kerry in a general election campaign against President Bush.
The New York Times: Edwards presses an argument of his strength against Bush
• CLARK DIDN'T CLICK: The collapse of General Clark's campaign, after he roared into politics on a rocket of publicity and good wishes from former President Bill Clinton, is the tale of a candidate who never matched the hopes invested in him by Democrats who latched onto their vision of his candidacy last fall.
The New York Times: Why Clark's campaign, once full of hopes, fell so short
• CLARK VOWS SUPPORT: Wesley Clark returned to the city where he launched his campaign for the presidency five months ago, promising to support his party's nominee and join in the fight to capture the White House in the fall.
The Washington Post: Clark quits, says he'll back nominee
• STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: A number of former presidential candidates and third parties filed suit yesterday to force the Federal Election Commission to decertify the Commission on Presidential Debates. Candidates as diverse as Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader argued that the debate panel is a partisan group controlled by the Republican and Democratic parties.
The Washington Times: They want in
Compiled by Heather Riley
