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President Bush To Campaign In New Jersey

Oct 17, 2004 2:46 pm US/Eastern


(1010 WINS) (EVESHAM, N.J.) President Bush was scheduled to appear Monday at his first campaign rally in New Jersey, another sign that Republicans believe they can win a state that has voted for Democratic presidential candidates in the last three elections.

The appearance at the Evesham Recreation Center comes one week after Vice President Dick Cheney's appearance in the same part of Burlington County, a county where Republicans dominate local politics.

Some Democrats have characterized the recent top-of-the-ticket Republican stumping in New Jersey as a ploy to get Democrats to spend their money there as well.

Statewide polls have shown Sen. John Kerry with a lead in New Jersey — but Republicans say the polls they've commissioned have shown the race to be much tighter than that.So far, Kerry has not campaigned in New Jersey, a state with 15 electoral votes. But in the past month, Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards has been in New Jersey twice....

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