Candidates Collide; Bush, Kerry Trade Jabs Over Jobs, Health Care, Taxes in Final Debate

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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday night that President Bush bears responsibility for a misguided war in Iraq, lost jobs at home and mounting millions without health care. Bush tagged his Democratic rival as a lifelong liberal bent on raising taxes and government spending.

"There's a mainstream in American politics and you sit right on the far left bank," Bush said in the final debate of a close and contentious campaign for the White House. "Your record is such that Ted Kennedy, your colleague, is the conservative senator from Massachusetts."

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Candidates Collide; Bush, Kerry Trade Jabs Over Jobs, Health Care, Taxes in Final Debate

Results from recent polls

NATIONAL - (ABC News tracking poll released Wednesday, margin of error +/-3%)

* George W. Bush-Dick Cheney, 48 percent

* John Kerry-John Edwards, 48 percent

IOW...

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