Close election doesn&#39;t have to stay that way
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The presidential race is too close to project a winner right now, but that doesn&#39;t mean it will be too close on Election Day to prevent a landslide.
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Just as it was four years earlier, the 2004 presidential vote couldn&#39;t be settled on Election Night. Sen. John Kerry&#39;s campaign refused to concede early Wednesday, arguing that more than 250,000 provisional
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In Washington State, ballots are being recounted in closest statewide race in history, one of several undecided nationwide. By Dean Paton | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor.
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Not in a generation has a presidential election been so close for so long. Now, as President Bush is pulling a bit ahead of Sen. John Kerry, every step â-nd misstep
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The surprise last night was that there were so few surprises. Just as President Bush&#39;s strategists have been predicting for years, it was another breathtakingly close election.
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There are times in the life of a minority government when the biggest hurdle on the horizon is not a vote it stands to lose but rather one it can&#39;t avoid winning.
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They voted, I suppose, because it was the polite thing to do. They held off the announcement, I guess, because that&#39;s the way it has always been done.
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While the undecideds are a small part of the electorate, they could determine the outcome of the election because the races are so tight in the swing states.
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The 2004 presidential election is barely over - all the votes, in fact, haven&#39;t even been counted - yet barely two weeks after the re-election of President Bush, there has been a flurry of Cabinet resignations that might give the impression the
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As Americans go to the polls today, they&#39;ll bring down the curtain on an election more passionately and tightly contested than ever before - with the possible exception, of course, of the one just four years ago.
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NEW YORK The last Newsweek poll before election day suggests a big majority of Americans don&#39;t expect smooth sailing at voting booths.
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As elections get tighter and more complicated, it's inevitable that one of them will be so thoroughly botched it'll have to be done over. It's time to start thinking about how. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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The prospect of another close U.S.  presidential election has focused new attention on the  Electoral College, which actually chooses the winner, but the  renewed calls for change are likely to fail as they have  hundreds of times in the past.
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A presidential election can be a strange prism on the real world. Small incidents can look monumental simply because theyâre unexpected or embarrassing (remember the flap over
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Most polls are closed now; with a tight race, it could be a long night; why  Giuliani didnât catch fire.
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According to the polls, the presidential election is now a toss-up. However, there is one historical &quot;iron law&quot; that hangs heavy over President George W. Bush&#39;s re-election.
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It&#39;s dawning on Americans that they may go to sleep Election Night, Nov. 2, and not know for weeks who won the presidency. Close polls, technical glitches, human error and legal challenges threaten a nightmare replay of the 2000 race.