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A treasure trove of data on the meaning of the 2004 presidential election has just been released, and you can bet that if reporters don't look at it carefully, strategists for potential candidates will. The 2004 election numbers may explain why Hillary Clinton is taking care to present herself as a centrist. While we vote for president in local precincts and then see the election results reported by state and county, the way to get a feeling for the underlying trends of an election is to wait for the results to be broken down into the nation's 435 congressional districts....

Massachusetts Democrat Brian Golden Endorses President Bush Earlier today, Democratic Massachusetts State Representative Brian Paul Golden announced that he will support President Bush in November over fellow Bay State Democrat John Kerry. Golden’s endorsement comes after witnessing President Bush’s accomplishments on education, Medicare and security issues. In contrast, Golden says that after following John Kerry’s 20-year senate career in Massachusetts, he still doesn’t know what Kerry stands for. “America needs a president who cares more about doing what is right than doing what is politically expedient. Both at home and abroad, President Bush has made tough decisions and shown a...

Who would Democrats rather have at their convention? Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) or former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca? You can bet it's Miller, who would attract many more conservative Democrats to support John Kerry [related, bio] than the endorsement of Iacocca (what did he do, again?) will. Alas, Miller will be busy preparing his speech for the Republican National Convention in New York. And to judge by the reaction of some Democrats, it's quite a coup for the GOP. Miller's decision is a ``shame and a disgrace,'' said Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia). Miller has already made no bones about his...

Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) issued the following statement addressing John Kerry's remarks to the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC): "From statehouses to Congress, John Kerry's fellow Democrats are refusing to campaign with him. It's no surprise that Democrats are running away from their party's first nominee since Walter Mondale to campaign on a platform of raising taxes. Regardless of what Kerry tells the DLC, the reality is that he has proposed at least $1.9 trillion in new government spending. Kerry's spending can only be paid for with higher taxes on all Americans and would derail the economic recovery sparked by President...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 — Federal appellate nominee Janice Rogers Brown on Wednesday defended her work as a conservative California jurist and said the personal opinions expressed in some of her speeches would stay separate from her role on the bench.