Day November 16, 2004

Vote recounts forced by third party candidates

Ohio recount The Cobb/Badnarik forces raised the $110,000 needed for a recount in Ohio. They now need $100,000 more for the mobilization effort. The Green and Libertarian party presidential candidates joined togeher to do this! New Hampshire recount Ralph Nader…

Write-in surfer may be next San Diego mayor

Donna Frye, environmentalist, owner of a surf shop, and wife of surf legend Skip Frye, launched a write-in campaign for mayor of San Diego five weeks before the election. The current vote count shows her 1,800 votes ahead of incumbent…

It’s a home-grown insurgency

Judging from fighters captured in Fallouja, all but about 5% are Iraqi, U.S. officials say. As for the taking of Fallouja, which the US has been boasting about, well, they haven’t really taken it nor did the bulk of the…