In 2004, all politics is not local
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NEW YORK (GNS) - As the Republican National Convention opens Monday in New York, it may be time to suspend an old political axiom for the rest of the 2004 campaign.
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In business and finance, 2004 had a split personality. The economy grew at a solid pace, but jobs didn't. The technology sector finally revived, but soon began to consolidate. Airlines packed flights, but still lost billions.
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When decision time comes this fall, the real swing votes in the 2004 presidential election may not come from Pennsylvania, Ohio or even the notorious Florida. The ultimate Bush-Kerry battleground may turn out to be somewhere more far-flung and unexpected &#151; Israel, Britain, even Indonesia.
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I like politics. I follow it the way some people follow sports. The Democrat Party     and Republican Party are major league teams. They battle each other in national, state and     local contests. They have mascots, both created by the same person.     They have fanatical supporters just like any sport. Like minor league teams, there are also minor political parties to watch that sometimes play spoiler and sometimes     gain enough strength to influence the major parties. Some operate only locally, some statewide, and some try to operate     nationally.    I also enjoy following individual personalities. People love and hate them like they love and hate sports teams and athletes.     I'm sometimes startled by the degree of blind adoration or blind rage that politicians can inspire in otherwise calm,     rational people.    Lately, I've noticed that there's a growing tendency to divide the United States into red states and blue states. People seem     to think that it's possible for an entire state to be Democrat or Republican. How can that be if it's difficult to even     categorize individual Americans into definite camps? Now, although once restricted to politics, the idea is spreading to     other arenas. I saw a suggestion that Hollywood start targetting states as red or blue audiences. I've seen statistics that     compare red states versus blue states on categories such as religion, income, and even gifts to charity.    The division of the United States into red and blue states is overly simplistic and misleading.
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Two weeks after the 2004 presidential election, a postelection tradition appears on the verge of extinction: the campaign book.
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Politics continue to complicate energy policy.
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Twelve years ago, in my first job as a reporter, I witnessed a real election catastrophe. Voters rejected Republicans at every level of government.
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2004 turned out to be a tough year for the predictors
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There is only one swing state that will determine the outcome in this upcoming election -- and it&#39;s not located in the Midwest.
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Our political system has historically had two major parties. Various other third parties have come and gone and have never gotten their candidates elected.
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They're not the ones we were writing about in 1999.
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There's only one problem with the storyline proclaiming that the country swung to the right on cultural issues in 2004. It is fiction.
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It was not a landslide, or a re-alignment, or even a seismic shock. But it was decisive, and it is impossible to read President Bush&#39;s re-election with larger Republican majorities in both
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From politics to policy, it's campaign season all over again for President Bush.
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GEORGE W Bushâs neo-conservatives wanted to shake up the Middle East. At the end of 2004, it seems that mission may be accomplished - but perhaps not in quite the way they had hoped.
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The political battleground in the presidential campaign has shifted from states like Ohio and Florida to Vietnam. The all-too-real battleground of three decades ago is once again playing a
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It&#39;s probably important to say this up front: This year&#39;s presidential election shouldn&#39;t be about George W. Bush&#39;s four years in the Texas Air National Guard or John F. Kerry&#39;s four months in Vietnam.