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<p>Howard Dean (news - web sites) is on the verge of an astonishing comeback. Can he replicate that feat for his demoralized party?</p> <p>Dean, the former Vermont governor and presidential candidate, is the frontrunner to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites) when its 447 members cast their votes Feb. 12. As of Thursday, Dean had public commitments from 213 members. He needs a simple majority to win.</p>

Taliban west? Liberals worry that President Bush's reelection will lead to an American theocracy | by Gene Edward Veith Secularits are in a state of panic about the role of evangelical Christians in the reelection of George Bush. They actually believe that American democracy is in danger, that we are on the verge of becoming a theocracy. "Putting God in the public square runs the risk of turning our democracy into a theocracy," frets DeWayne Wickham in USA Today. Leonard Pitts of The Miami Herald warns darkly of "the soldiers of the new American theocracy who want to force ‘creation...

A Final Plea to Nader SupportersOctober 30, 2004 If Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, and Ralph Nader's former running mate Winona LaDuke haven't convinced you that voting for Nader is too great a risk this election, maybe nothing will. But the stakes are high enough to try. As Nader supporters continually point out, Kerry is a compromised, centrist Democrat, ambivalent at best on a host of key questions including the Iraqi war. Nader's positions may be better, and it may feel personally gratifying to vote for them. But this election isn't about abstract stands. It's about...

The cover of the Washington Monthly asks the burning question: "WHAT IF HE WINS?" The outcome of the race remains in doubt, of course, but there are huge implications for the media -- especially its openly liberal branch -- if President Bush is reelected next week. Some are already using apocalyptic terms. The New Yorker is backing John Kerry today in the first endorsement in its 80-year history. "There will be a period of grieving," says Katrina van den Heuvel, editor of the Nation. "We will continue to fight the good fight during what we think is the dismantling of...

Jewish Democratic leaders in Palm Beach County are worried. They are increasingly concerned that Republicans and the Bush administration have done such a good job of marketing themselves to Jewish voters that the once-reliable bloc of Democratic votes could go in a big way toward the president's re-election. With 22 days until Election Day, Democrats are scrambling to undo gains Republicans have made among Jews. "It's a very big problem," said Sylvia Wolfe-Herman, a vice president of the United South County Democratic Club. "We no longer have the bloc vote." The situation has attracted the attention of John Kerry's presidential...

John Kerry's FLIP FLOPPING now has even the Europeans concerned. They love Kerry (his wife is so ...'european') but they are not about to help ANYONE..ANYTIME with Iraq.

A STRONG performance in last week’s presidential debate has propelled Senator John Kerry, the Democratic challenger, into a dramatic lead over President George W Bush in the first major opinion poll since the two candidates faced each other in Miami on Thursday night. For the first time since the end of the Republican convention a month ago, a Newsweek poll showed that Kerry had surged past the president to lead by 49% to 46%. The same poll showed that 61% of Americans thought the Massachusetts senator had won the debate. Only 19% thought Bush had won, a stunning setback for...

You know the Dems are in trouble when your previous Secretary of State (Madeline Albright) gets b!tchslapped by Anderson Cooper. Man.. Anyone else see her get flustered.

Poll: Bush holds razor-thin lead over Kerry in Nevada President Bush holds a razor-thin lead over Democratic challenger John Kerry in the battleground state of Nevada. That's according to a new Las Vegas Sun/KLAS-TV/KNPR poll released this week. Among 600 likely voters in the state, Bush leads Kerry 47 percent to 42 percent. The poll has a sampling error margin of four percentage points. The poll shows seven percent of voters are undecided, two percent favor independent candidate Ralph Nader and two percent refuse to answer. Among those polled, forty percent were registered Republicans, 36 percent were registered Democrats and...

FOX News To Control Camera Coverage For Entire Press During First Debate And Saying They Will Not Follow Guidelines Agreed To By Candidates by Samuel A. Stanson It's truly hard to imagine. We've warned again and again that, above all else, the Kerry campaign had to guard against FOX News getting its hands on the debates. We told you the Bush team would work any angle possible to get FOX involved, and that if the Kerry campaign allowed this, we've warned for months now, they would lose the election. All seemed safe, as the moderators and hosts for the agreed...

New Poll: Kerry Losing Ground in Michigan

On the eve of the debates people are so on edge in New York that every gathering has become like a visit to the dentist. In this town of Democrats, Karl Rove's real or imagined brilliance has got people dangerously psyched out. Someone in a group always produces some new vulnerability of Kerry's to drill down on, some fresh tactical error to palpitate about. An expectation reversal has been going on that's strange to find among a candidate's own supporters. Even without the goring Bush has given him all summer, Kerry has lowered opinions of his campaigning skills so far...

How bad is John Kerry's campaign? So bad that the race is already over. By David M. Carney Trust me. I know a dead campaign when I see one John Kerry is in trouble. More precisely, Kerry's campaign is in trouble. I should know: I served on two of the worst-run national presidential campaigns in history, Bush-Quayle '92 and Dole-Kemp in '96. Watching the Kerry campaign flounder is giving me nightmares and flashbacks to those bad old days. There is no way that Kerry can win this race. He and his merry band of elitists have done everything in their...

WASHINGTON - Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle hugged President Bush (news - web sites) from one end of South Dakota to the other this summer. In his own campaign commercials. The brief embrace might seem an odd claim on re-election for the man Republicans depict as obstructionist-in-chief for the president's congressional agenda. But Daschle is one of several candidates with a common political problem as Democrats nurse fragile hopes of gaining Senate control this fall. From the South to South Dakota and Alaska, they are running in areas where Bush is popular — and Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news...

"What's happening to John Kerry?" Columnist J. Jesus Esquivel spoke for the most of the international online media when he asked that question in this week's edition of Proceso (in Spanish), a leading Mexican newsweekly. Kerry, Esquivel said, "is the hope of the world to put a stop to the imperialist ideas and belligerent crusades of the Bush government." Opinion polls show people in many countries agree with Esquivel, supporting Kerry by margins of up to two to one. Yet in U.S. opinion polls, Kerry is lagging behind President Bush just days before their first face-to-face debate in Miami on...

Did someone spike Steve MacMahon's Kool-Aid with truth serum? The former Dean advisor turned Kerry advisor just let the cat out of the bag as to the deep doo-doo in which the baleful snowboarder from the Bay State finds himself. In the course of a short interview combing through the rubble and debris that are Kerry's latest poll results, MacMahon admitted the following: W had a good convention. Kerry "has a rough month ahead." Kerry is definitely behind. Kerry has "come up a little short" in various regards. Imagine what life must be like inside the Nantucket bunker if this...

LA CROSSE, Wis. - In 2000, political pundits summed up the race in three words: Florida, Florida, Florida. Here's three words to consider this fall: Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. President Bush (news - web sites) is targeting their combined 27 electoral votes — the same total as Florida, where a bitterly contested recount settled the last election. The trio of upper Mississippi River states narrowly backed Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) in 2000 and are, if anything, slightly more Republican four years later, raising the possibility that Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) could...

.....Kerry will be in Wisconsin, a battleground state where he has fallen behind Bush in the polls. Gregory B. Craig, an attorney on former President Bill Clinton's impeachment defense team, will take on the Bush role. Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry said the challenger's goal will be to introduce himself to an electorate that has yet to gain a clear impression of him. Kerry needs to "get people to understand who he is and what his leadership capabilities are [that] he really would lead this country in a different direction ... and finally to convince people that we've got a plan...

LA CROSSE, WIS. - In 2000, political pundits summed up the race in three words: Florida, Florida, Florida. Here's three words to consider this fall: Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. The trio of upper Mississippi River states narrowly backed Vice President Al Gore in 2000 and are, if anything, slightly more Republican four years later, raising the possibility that Democratic Sen. John Kerry could lose one or two of them. President Bush is targeting their combined 27 electoral votes — the same total as Florida, where a bitterly contested recount settled the last election. "They are states we lost last time,...

(09-25) 09:46 PDT LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- In 2000, political pundits summed up the race in three words: Florida, Florida, Florida. Here's three words to consider this fall: Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. The trio of upper Mississippi River states narrowly backed Vice President Al Gore in 2000 and are, if anything, slightly more Republican four years later, raising the possibility that Democratic Sen. John Kerry could lose one or two of them. President Bush is targeting their combined 27 electoral votes -- the same total as Florida, where a bitterly contested recount settled the last election. "They are states...