October 21
Well well...! Who would believe it?
Best quote of the night? - "I feel like a 6-year-old who just watched his dog get hit by a car," said Paul Avvento, 19, from Wantagh, Long Island. "Everything I've always known to be right has been proven wrong".
The Houston Astros play the St Louis Cardinals tonight for the National League Championship and the right to meet the Red Sox in Game One of the World Series at Fenway Park on Saturday.
A couple of political angles: If the Astros win tonight, it will be the first time ever in a presidential election year that the teams contesting the World Series have come from the two candidates' home states.
Also, any Kerry "bounce" from last night might turn out to be short-lived as it has re-opened the whole debate about exactly how much of a Red Sox fan he really is...
There's even a group, "Red Sox Fans For Truth", dedicated to exposing Kerry's "long pattern of deception regarding his supposed love of the Boston Red Sox".
On the subject of gaffes and back-offs, meanwhile, Kerry's wife continues to unnerve Democrat strategists...
Back to substantive matters, and Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post points to the latest Pew study that shows, as he says:
"..45 percent [of Americans] saying the Iraq war has helped the war against terrorism and 40 percent saying it has hurt. Eight months ago, the margin was 62-28. The Pew poll also shows Kerry and Bush in a dead heat - and shows Bush's approval rating at 44 percent."
The Tampa Tribune, which has endorsed a Republican for President in every election bar one since 1952, says - in a reasoned editorial - that it is unable to give its backing to either candidate this time; while in the Chicago Tribune - which has backed the GOP candidate in each election since 1872 - Don Wycliff explains the endorsement process and readers' reaction to their backing for Bush.
Elsewhere, Editor and Publisher magazine looks at what has been missing in newspaper endorsements.
There's a nice piece in the Christian Science Monitor about the influence of political movies and documentaries, while the New York Times reports that the stock price of Sinclair Broadcast has recovered after its slight re-think over the proposed John Kerry documentary.
Finally, as former President Bill Clinton gets ready to go on the stump, something to keep an eye will be numbers of newly-registered voters - particularly in key midwestern states.
Well well...! Who would believe it?
Best quote of the night? - "I feel like a 6-year-old who just watched his dog get hit by a car," said Paul Avvento, 19, from Wantagh, Long Island. "Everything I've always known to be right has been proven wrong".
The Houston Astros play the St Louis Cardinals tonight for the National League Championship and the right to meet the Red Sox in Game One of the World Series at Fenway Park on Saturday.
A couple of political angles: If the Astros win tonight, it will be the first time ever in a presidential election year that the teams contesting the World Series have come from the two candidates' home states.
Also, any Kerry "bounce" from last night might turn out to be short-lived as it has re-opened the whole debate about exactly how much of a Red Sox fan he really is...
There's even a group, "Red Sox Fans For Truth", dedicated to exposing Kerry's "long pattern of deception regarding his supposed love of the Boston Red Sox".
On the subject of gaffes and back-offs, meanwhile, Kerry's wife continues to unnerve Democrat strategists...
Back to substantive matters, and Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post points to the latest Pew study that shows, as he says:
"..45 percent [of Americans] saying the Iraq war has helped the war against terrorism and 40 percent saying it has hurt. Eight months ago, the margin was 62-28. The Pew poll also shows Kerry and Bush in a dead heat - and shows Bush's approval rating at 44 percent."
The Tampa Tribune, which has endorsed a Republican for President in every election bar one since 1952, says - in a reasoned editorial - that it is unable to give its backing to either candidate this time; while in the Chicago Tribune - which has backed the GOP candidate in each election since 1872 - Don Wycliff explains the endorsement process and readers' reaction to their backing for Bush.
Elsewhere, Editor and Publisher magazine looks at what has been missing in newspaper endorsements.
There's a nice piece in the Christian Science Monitor about the influence of political movies and documentaries, while the New York Times reports that the stock price of Sinclair Broadcast has recovered after its slight re-think over the proposed John Kerry documentary.
Finally, as former President Bill Clinton gets ready to go on the stump, something to keep an eye will be numbers of newly-registered voters - particularly in key midwestern states.
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