Day November 1, 2004

Bin Laden to states: Don’t vote for Bush Speech mistranslated by most media as threat against foreign countries. The tape of Osama bin Laden that was aired Friday on Al-Jazeera included a specific threat to “each U.S. state,” designed to…

West Palm Beach early voter madness: Police are in riot gears. Protestors are being restrained. Lines are stetched for hours. Mark tells us that “the problem with the electronic voting machines is that you have to mark the ballot perfectly…

Socialist physician Tabare Vazquez swept to a landslide victory in this country’s presidential election Sunday, bringing the left to power for the first time in Uruguayan history. “We’re sick of the Whites and Reds,” said Adriana Curcio, a 33-year-old Montevideo…

Not much choice in plans for Iraq No single campaign issue has defined the presidential candidates’ differences more clearly than the war in Iraq. Yet it seems that whoever wins Tuesday’s election will steer a remarkably similar course in the…

Voting 2004: This time it’s personal The spinning and selling, they say, the doublespeak and dissembling, have managed not just to sway and confuse as political operatives intended, but to set neighbor on neighbor. (“Red states, blue states — we’re…