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Bush, Kerry, Campaign from Different Sides of Same Issue: Jobs.

By James Toedtman, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 5--WASHINGTON -- Politics is a rough sport. But perhaps the harshest four-letter word President George W. Bush and his Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry will trade this election year is spelled J-O-B-S.

The battle over economic issues came into focus yesterday when the president met with a group of Bakersfield, Calif., workers. For months, Vice President Dick Cheney and Bush's cabinet secretaries have said creating jobs is "the president's top domestic priority." <

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