Some Potentially Positive Developments from a Disastrous Election
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No progressive should be happy with the results of the presidential election. However, it is hard to predict what the longer-term impact on American politics of a particular presidential election result might be.
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There is another election this week. The issues are not war, taxes, morals or international credibility. They are microbes, diseases, data and international credibility.
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Pregnant chads, vanishing voters... the election fiasco of 2000 made the Sunshine State a laughing stock. More importantly, it put George Bush in the White House.
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He was out of touch with voters. And he's not alone. His defeat foreshadows an upheaval to come in November
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Election night 2006 will go into history books as a triumph for Democrats and rebuke to President Bush. It was a watershed evening for the news media, too.
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How and why did President Bush and the Republicans do so well in Tuesday&#39;s elections? I&#39;ve jotted down a few quick thoughts on what, in my opinion, led to the GOP&#39;s 2004 victories.
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The sudden reversal of her political fortunes has put Hillary's campaign in a position few would have predicted
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Many of our political savants and pundits took one in the teeth last night. I couldn't be happier about last night's surprising results, and not because I favor one candidate or another. I'm just glad the so-called experts in the national media were wrong about their premature assumptions that the Democratic and Republican nominations for president were a done deal.
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One of the two democratic campaigns will end up with a fresh sense of possibility, the other with a sense of opportunity lost.
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The president's decisive win may change future electoral math
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The Fix | Aside from the obvious, a look at the winners and losers from last night's proceedings.
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WITH A month and a half to go Kerry has belatedly come out swinging at Bush, especially over the disastrous war in Iraq. But it&#39;s not clear those attacks will bring positive results.
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Afghanistan&#39;s election had problems ranging from delible ink to untrained poll workers, but those flaws did not tarnish the remarkable accomplishment of a nation, which only three years ago was under control of the oppressive Taliban, holding its first
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For Democrats, this has been an inspiring election -- and a devastating one. They have two strong candidates, who have thus far wrestled to a draw.
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Tuesdayâs presidential election might be won or lost in eight states where the race is too close to call. What could tip the balance is jobs â-r the lack of them.
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WASHINGTON Usually, an election victory improves a politician&#39;s popularity. But polling numbers overseas show President Bush is disliked and his re-election was a significant disappointment to most Europeans.
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The aftermath of the South Carolina primary brought some measure of clarity to the muddled Republican presidential race.