Year: 2004

Where do we go from here? How do we begin to reclaim secular democracy? The most disheartening thing I’m hearing on all the networks is that “moral issues” rather than economic issues were the deciding factor. How can we possibly convince American voters – over the next decade or two, for it will surely take…

Joshua Marshall says Republicans have taken to the courts to steal the election in Ohio.

Zogby is projecting a slight popular vote margin for Bush but gives the electoral college to Kerry by a projected margin of 311 to 213.

According to McLehrer, Republicans are spinning that the high turnout today isn’t necessarily bad for them. Meanwhile, George and Laura Bush were making a statement and W. seemed to have a bit of a resigned air, like a man who’d taken his best shot and was about ready to retire. Ray Suarez quotes the Republican…

I dragged my wheezy lungs up to the school on the hill to cast my ballot. I’ve never missed an election and I always think it’s important to vote, but even in this decidedly non-swing state (California) I felt like my vote counted more than ever this time. The poll workers told me they had…

I was listening to Air America on the way to work and Al Franken and company were singing a lopsided song oompah song “bring a book, bring a book, when you go to vote” and it was so sweet and I thought “this is what it sounds like to win.” At our east bay (CA)…

Fafblog! (the whole world’s only source for Fafblog) says Giblets will win, unless he is sandbagged by the media bias: But if – as some scurrilous rumors and half-mad acid-eating anti-Giblets propagandists have suggested – Giblets loses the election to John Kerry, it will be clear why. It will be because of the bias of…

An all-new, all-free mp3 political-shtick awaits you over on ye olde Monkey Vortex Radio Theater today — John, Paul, George, and Ringo. In which John Kerry and GWB attempt to join the world’s greatest rock band, with decidedly mixed results.

I’m about ready to take up fingernail biting to alleviate the anxiety of the next 24 hours but meanwhile decided to check out the election eve activities around my neighborhood conveniently provided in an e-mail from MoveON. There were over 40 phone parties listed within ten miles of my house and in the brief invitation…

Need for Draft Is Dismissed by Officials at Pentagon, NYT Rumors of a secret plan to reinstate the draft are churning across the Internet, worrying some in Congress and even coloring the presidential campaign…Officials note that Congressional proposals for…30,000 to 40,000 more troops, would hardly require a new draft … DKo: A few points for…

It’s that rotgut, queasy stomach, sweat it out, expect the worst time again … a liberal waiting for November 2 to be over. I’ve been through this eight times already and mostly it’s been a bummer. But none quite so bad as this year. And that’s from somebody who had to live through Reagan as…

In late October 2000, the polls consistently showed Bush over Gore by anywhere from 5 points to 13 points. I remember going into election day convinced by the confident, well-dressed people on my TV that Gore didn’t have a chance. I remember being stunned that night to see that it was even close. The unions…

[Cecil, if you don’t smile over this, please report to an ER.] Thursday evening, homeward commute time; corner of Treat Bl. and Clayton Rd. in Concord, California (medium-size intersection in a medium-size suburb): A dozen people scattered around all the sidewalks, waving Kerry/Edwards signs. Now, this is antithesis of a battleground state. And it’s in…