July 19
Despite rumours recently that President Bush - or rather his campaign team - is so concerned by recent polls and a perceived turning of the tide that he is considering replacing Dick Cheney with John McCain as his running mate, McCain himself goes to some lengths to dismiss the possibility. Even, errr, comparing the job of vice-president to his imprisonment in Vietnam, according to the Miami Herald.
The Democrats, meanwhile, continue to hold their breath that Cheney won't get the boot.
Interesting column by Kevin Phillips in The Nation, on how Kerry needs to be able to harness the discontent felt by previous Bush voters. An extract:
To win this election decisively, John Kerry is going to have to feel the same outrage that Howard Dean felt, and he's going to have to express some of it with the same merciless candor that the Republican dissidents have employed against two generations of Bushes. In today's circumstances of a nation on the wrong track, most swing voters -- especially wavering GOP men who grew up on John Wayne movies -- will not be content with pablum.
While Alexandra Marks in the Christian Science Monitor has a nice wrap on how the media are contributing to the political polarization of the country.
After recent reports of further problems with e-voting machinery in Florida, The Orlando Sentinel reports that ...The obscure class of late-arriving ballots that swung Florida and the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush may be back again in greater numbers this year.
Finally, it's a longshot, but don't say you weren't warned....
Despite rumours recently that President Bush - or rather his campaign team - is so concerned by recent polls and a perceived turning of the tide that he is considering replacing Dick Cheney with John McCain as his running mate, McCain himself goes to some lengths to dismiss the possibility. Even, errr, comparing the job of vice-president to his imprisonment in Vietnam, according to the Miami Herald.
The Democrats, meanwhile, continue to hold their breath that Cheney won't get the boot.
Interesting column by Kevin Phillips in The Nation, on how Kerry needs to be able to harness the discontent felt by previous Bush voters. An extract:
To win this election decisively, John Kerry is going to have to feel the same outrage that Howard Dean felt, and he's going to have to express some of it with the same merciless candor that the Republican dissidents have employed against two generations of Bushes. In today's circumstances of a nation on the wrong track, most swing voters -- especially wavering GOP men who grew up on John Wayne movies -- will not be content with pablum.
While Alexandra Marks in the Christian Science Monitor has a nice wrap on how the media are contributing to the political polarization of the country.
After recent reports of further problems with e-voting machinery in Florida, The Orlando Sentinel reports that ...The obscure class of late-arriving ballots that swung Florida and the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush may be back again in greater numbers this year.
Finally, it's a longshot, but don't say you weren't warned....
posted by Steve at 9:09 AM
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