Month November 2004

Crunch time

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 elected President in Uruguay!

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…

L.A. Times front page

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…

Colors

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…

Kerry got big mo’

Here’s the latest numbersYoung mobile voters pick Kerry Over Bush, 55% to 40%. Polling firm Zogby International and partner Rock the Vote found Massachusetts Senator John Kerry leading President Bush 55% to 40% among 18-29 year-old likely voters in their…