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Kennedy slams Bush 'credibility gap'
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Watch "Wolf Blitzer Reports" at 5 p.m. ET for a debate on Sen. Ted Kennedy's assertion that Iraq is "Bush's Vietnam." Then DNC chief Terry McAuliffe is a guest on "Lou Dobbs Tonight" at 6 p.m. ET. And Bush adviser Karen Hughes talks about her perspective on "Larry King Live" at 9 p.m. ET.
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 CNN's Joe Johns on Sen. Ted Kennedy's attack on President Bush's Iraq policy.
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 CNN's Bill Schneider on the recent erosion of support among seniors for last year's Medicare legislation.
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 CNN's Tim Rury on White House preps for a week of scrutiny around 9/11 and the Iraq war.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
'CREDIBILITY' GAP: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, broadening his criticism of President Bush from foreign policy to domestic issues, accused Bush yesterday of having "created the largest credibility gap since Richard Nixon" on education, health and jobs, and the war in Iraq. The Washington Post: Kennedy accuses Bush of 'credibility gap'
THE GROUND WAR: After decades of playing poor relation to television advertising, grass-roots politics has become a campaign star this year, as many political pros predicted it would be in the aftermath of the Bush-Gore face-off of 2000. And today it ranges from old-fashioned shoe leather to Web technology that can make a precinct captain of anyone with a computer. The New York Times: One-doorbell-one-vote tactic re-emerges in Bush-Kerry race
IN DEFENSE OF VACATION: Responding to concerns in his own party that he may have taken too long off the campaign trail, Kerry said Monday that he had plenty of time to define himself for voters despite millions of dollars worth of what he termed "the equivalent of nuclear attacks" on television by the Bush campaign that have cast him as a tax-and-spend liberal. The New York Times: Kerry dismisses critics of time that he took off campaigning
JOB PITCH: President Bush focused his campaign Monday on job creation, celebrating employment figures for March that surpassed all but the most optimistic expectations before exercising that quintessentially presidential prerogative of throwing out the first ball on opening day at a field of his choosing. The New York Times: President makes his pitch, on jobs and at ballgame
OVEREXPOSURE: Many viewers say they already are trying to ignore the ads, but that is proving increasingly difficult. In Ohio and 16 other states both parties view as the most competitive in the presidential race, the ads are airing at an unprecedented rate for this stage of the campaign.The Los Angeles Times: Political ads already deluging swing states
BALLOT BID: Ralph Nader continued his long and much-maligned march to win the White House on Monday night with an impromptu convention in Portland designed to collect the 1,000 voter signatures necessary to qualify for Oregon's November presidential ballot.The Los Angeles Times: Nader bid for spot on Oregon's ballot fails
SECURITY REPORT: The final policy paper on national security that President Clinton submitted to Congress -- 45,000 words long -- makes no mention of al Qaeda and refers to Osama bin Laden by name just four times.The Washington Times: Al Qaeda absent from final Clinton report
TERROR INFO: President Bush said Monday he will tell the commission investigating the September 11 attacks that his administration lacked the information needed to prevent the terrorists from striking.The Associated Press: Bush says he lacked info on September 11
ALL TIED UP: Teresa Heinz Kerry has helped design a scarf for Kerry donors. The Washington Post: Nothing says "I love you" like a tie or scarf
Compiled by Heather Riley
