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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Twenty-eight years after his first campaign, George W. Bush is waging his last. If the polls are right, the president could wind up experiencing the sting of defeat for the first time since that 1978 race.
Most of the winning campaigns in between have been close, and Bush's victories have hinged in part on his flair for retail politicking that allows him to make personal connections with voters.
But the war in Iraq has driven Bush's popularity down to a point where he has had to avoid major public events and instead has appeared almost exclusively with party elites.
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