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Bush, Kerry quarrel over jobs on tours through battleground states.
Byline: Ron Hutcheson and James Kuhnhenn
CANTON, Ohio _ Competing for votes in a region battered by layoffs, President Bush and Democrat John Kerry sparred over the economy Saturday on overlapping bus tours through Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Bush defended his record and promised the economy would get better. Kerry lambasted the president for job losses and compared him to President Herbert Hoover, whose term ushered in the Great Depression.
"The economy is strong. It's getting stronger," Bush told a campaign rally in Canton. "It lags in places like eastern Ohio. I know that. I'm here to tell you we can do more to make America job friendly."
Kerry, seizing on Bush's assertion Friday that "we are turning the corner" on job losses, reminded a rally in Greensburg, Pa., that Hoover's re-election slogan was "prosperity is just around the corner."
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