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So would we get Joan as VP? Found over at Liz's house....
M E-L wrote this on July 24, 2002
Well, no, not really. But almost. "FX announced yesterday it has bought a TV series in which it gets to select a candidate for the 2004 presidential election." Yup. Reality TV, meet Presidential Politics. I'm speechless. Thanks to Ennis for...
M E-L wrote this on September 24, 2002
Found on Dissociated Press was this story -- Some States May Skip Presidential Primaries. I'm not sure what makes me more angry about this story. Is it the fact that, at a time when state governments can't even afford to...
M E-L wrote this on March 24, 2003
Someone finally calls the G.O.P. hate machine on its brazen two-facery. I think this kind of awareness needs to get echoed -- but loud -- in the coming year, although cantankerous truth-telling is probably a small and irrelevant part of...
Colin wrote this on August 12, 2003
Speaking of organizing and the web, the folks over at Not Geniuses have come up with something that's, frankly, genius. W has launched his campaign website, which includes a nifty Action Center that enables you to write letters to your...
M E-L wrote this on August 21, 2003
Well, I've just written my letter to the editor, as part of Flood the Zone Friday, and sent it off to a dozen or so papers using W's Action Center. It's not the greatest thing I've ever written, and I...
M E-L wrote this on August 22, 2003
Howard Dean rally in Bryant Park, Tuesday August 26, 8:30 p.m. (free!). Sign up for the rally via 1-866-DEAN-4-USA or www.deanforamerica.com/sleeplessnyc and be entered to win a personal Q&A session with Gov. Dean. (!)...
Colin wrote this on August 25, 2003
Ah, Labor Day. The traditional start to election season. And so begins the 400-day campaign against what will probably be the best-funded sitting President in the history of American government. Like most years, it starts off with a bang -...
Jimpy wrote this on September 2, 2003
I've been wary of the lovefest around Wesley Clark, but I'm gratified and even inspired to see that he's become the first presidential candidate to propose a major new initiative for civilian national service. I'm a big fan of having...
andrea wrote this on October 15, 2003
We all knew this was a factor but it's easy to forget how large a constituency white evangelicals are for Bush: "white evangelicals accounted for about 40 percent of the votes that Mr. Bush received in the 2000 presidential election....
Ennis wrote this on October 27, 2003
CJR Campaign Desk One of the minor rituals of American presidential politics is the post-election self-examination (or perhaps I should say self-flagellation) by the press. Quadrennially, we regret having pursued some lines of inquiry while ignoring others, or having gotten...
M E-L wrote this on January 16, 2004
"One of the most awful prospects of the next presidential election is the return of…that damn map." Over at CommonWealth, Robert David Sullivan redivides the country into 10 regions that cut across state boundaries. I've seen similar efforts to map...
M E-L wrote this on January 20, 2004
Which candidate's policies are closest to yours?
Colin wrote this on January 21, 2004
According to experts, Henry V's pre-battle "Crispin Shriek" may be his political undoing. "There he was, going on about how the soldiers were his 'brothers' and how they'd be showing off their scars, years from now," said University of Texas...
M E-L wrote this on January 29, 2004
In 1971....
M E-L wrote this on February 3, 2004
News outlets are reporting that Howard Dean has sent an e-mail to his "Dean-iacs" announcing that if he loses Wisconsin, he'll quit the race. The e-mail actually reads (in part), "The entire race has come down to this: we must...
Jimpy wrote this on February 5, 2004
For some reason, the GOP thinks that my wife is a Republican.
M E-L wrote this on February 18, 2004
Gay marriage is going to be the Willie Horton of the 2004 election.
M E-L wrote this on February 25, 2004
To manage the transition from the George W. Bush Administration to the...
George W. Bush Administration.
M E-L wrote this on March 3, 2004
See if you can guess which supporters were allowed by the Bush Campaign Filter and which were rejected!
M E-L wrote this on March 11, 2004
The Wadministration is running a new ad called "100 days" accusing Kerry of being soft on terror and that uses a swarthy looking man as the presumed terrorist. Wadministration officials insist the image is "very generic"...
Ennis wrote this on March 11, 2004
A few cool things from Eyebeam reBlog: The Zip Decoder Map The Bush - Kerry joint campaign blog The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes...
M E-L wrote this on March 15, 2004
The blog Counterspin Central carries a story about the latest Kerry weak-on-defense-and-terrorism line. Paul Sperry, in the New York Post, quotes a former FAA agent who warned Kerry about Logan's security lapses in August 2001: "He just did the Pontius...
M E-L wrote this on March 17, 2004
Check out this map of Manhattan, showing where the political donors are. Plus you can see which campaigns your neighbors funded. The National Maps are pretty cool, too....
M E-L wrote this on March 18, 2004
First it was Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary. Now it's Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chief of the national-security staff. This is potentially much more damaging to the Wadministration, as Clarke alleges that Ashcroft, Wolfowitz, and Bush himself downplayed the Al...
M E-L wrote this on March 22, 2004
It's all Emily's fault, really, for pointing out the cool stuff you could buy for the Bush-Cheney campaign. Will I go with metrosexual, farm-ranch, "interstate", sports, or just plain patriotic? On the other hand, Kerry's got three designs -- plain...
M E-L wrote this on March 23, 2004
Unfutz cites this story from Iran claiming that the US is unloading old missiles to plant WMD evidence near Basra. File under Conspiracy Theories To Watch....
M E-L wrote this on March 23, 2004
America's Favorite Fictional Candidate!...
M E-L wrote this on March 24, 2004
A follow-up from yesterday's proposal to launch a design contest for better Kerry t-shirts. Here's the steps we need to take. If you'd like to help out, leave a comment and tell me which step(s) (other than 6.c., of course)...
M E-L wrote this on March 24, 2004
Open thread: Who should we approach to be judges for the contest? As I see it, there are three basic groups: 1) Political Types (James Carville) 2) Design Gurus (Milton Glaser) 3) Lefty Celebrities (Al Franken) Fire away....
M E-L wrote this on March 25, 2004
Hey folks -- we're moving all discussion about DOTWH over to the discussion forum on www.designsonthewhitehouse.com. Email me if you want to be involved and need to log in....
M E-L wrote this on March 30, 2004
Do You Have the Bush Leadership Stuff? Take the quiz and find out!...
M E-L wrote this on April 1, 2004
I had been wondering about Kerry's recent low profile. I figured it was deliberate, but building a whole strategy around rope-a-dope? As with Ali, that's either genius or lunacy. Anybody care to speculate on the conditions it would take to...
Ennis wrote this on April 25, 2004
I'm pretty amazed at the way Designs on the White House has taken off. The list of judges on board is pretty amazing (see below; there are a few other Big Names in the works as well), thanks to Debbie's...
M E-L wrote this on May 6, 2004
It's the last day of voting over at Designs on the White House. Head over and vote! If you haven't registered already, you still can! Vote!...
M E-L wrote this on June 2, 2004
That's how much Designs on the White House has raised thus far for Kerry! I've been so busy with taking orders etc. that I haven't had time to blog about it. The contest is over, 10 designs were picked, the...
M E-L wrote this on July 2, 2004
So did anyone else see the New York Post's veep scoop flop before they heard the actual news?...
M E-L wrote this on July 6, 2004
According to this New Republic article, the Wadministration is putting pressure on Pakistan to deliver Al Qadea leaders -- during the DNC convention.An official who works under ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence]'s director, Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq, informed tnr that the Pakistanis...
M E-L wrote this on July 8, 2004
Ridge considers "emergency legislation" empowering his agency to cancel and reschedule the election.
Colin wrote this on July 11, 2004
Osama bin Lotto!. Can you guess when they'll unwrap him? Via easy bake coven....
M E-L wrote this on July 16, 2004
Via robot filter...
M E-L wrote this on July 22, 2004
If you .... *stopped reading the New York Post after the morning of July 6th *are named Gephardt and plan to name your next child "Kerry" *are visiting Earth from an alternate universe … then this is the auction for...
M E-L wrote this on July 27, 2004
Follow-up to our earlier post on the deal that Pakistan would deliver an Al Qaeda leader during the Democratic convention: it looks like they came through. Pakistan Says It Captures a 'Most Wanted' Qaeda Man. Good for them -- certainly...
M E-L wrote this on July 30, 2004
It's illegal to buy sex.
It's illegal to buy votes.
But a
clever bunch of liberals has come (ahem) up with the idea of bartering sex with liberals for conservative pledges not to vote for Bush.
Ennis wrote this on July 30, 2004
I saw this on Atrios's blog, which linked to talkingpointsmemo.com. But take a look at these articles in the Albuquerque Journal: Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement By Jeff Jones Journal Staff Writer Some would-be spectators hoping to...
Guest wrote this on August 1, 2004
Now it's time for the Subservient President!...
M E-L wrote this on August 2, 2004
Found on Kerim's Wiki, this Electoral Vote Predictor maps out the latest poll data, state by state. You can see the raw state data here, and this total electoral graph is pretty informative as well. If I were Tufte, though,...
M E-L wrote this on August 9, 2004
If corporations could run for political office......
M E-L wrote this on August 17, 2004
A while ago, I humbly suggested that the data from electoral-vote.com could be better represented proportionally. Well I tracked down the writer of that Java applet, and he took me up on the suggestion and modified it to break down...
M E-L wrote this on August 25, 2004
An experiment in non-shrill political persuasion.
Colin wrote this on September 6, 2004
Are the Killian memos forged?
M E-L wrote this on September 10, 2004
Indicators measure the nation's unemployment rate, consumer spending and other economic milestones, but Vice President Dick Cheney says they miss the hundreds of thousands who make money selling on eBay. "That's a source that didn't even exist 10 years ago,''...
M E-L wrote this on September 10, 2004
His commercials might look like this. From Mad Magazine via DailyKos....
M E-L wrote this on September 10, 2004
Electoral-Vote now features a Daily cartogram of the electoral votes, shaded by strength of support. I'm happy to have played a small part in making this election more Tufte-friendly....
M E-L wrote this on September 14, 2004
New on the links: Colin's great political blog Undecided Nation, the newly arisen Scorched Angel, and artist Regia Marinho. Also: Citizen Joe is up and running, providing the latest on policy issues, and pesky' is doing a series on --...
M E-L wrote this on September 15, 2004
David Brooks eats cereal, Jon Stewart explains it all to Bill O'Reilly.
M E-L wrote this on September 23, 2004
Thudfactor finds out. Go read....
M E-L wrote this on September 25, 2004
Are you looking for some easy to do, direct action to get W out of the White House? Do you have a cell phone with free long distance and weekend minutes? Do you need to get outdoors more? Then this...
M E-L wrote this on September 25, 2004
First
typesetting, now paper stock. Will this election be settled by printers? Or devils?
M E-L wrote this on September 28, 2004
Bush's top 10 flip-flops. Debate bingo! And the inevitable debate drinking game! (requires registration {use bugmenot [because registration is stupid (or better yet the firefox bugmenot plugin {what? you're not using firefox yet?})]}) Top Secrets they don't want you to...
M E-L wrote this on September 30, 2004
Join Kerry's
Media Corps and help influence the debate spin.
Colin wrote this on September 30, 2004
So what did you all think? Both the polls and the pols seemed to give the debate to Kerry, and I'd agree. Hard to take off the partisan lens (as I sit and type in my Kerry t-shirt) but I...
M E-L wrote this on October 1, 2004
red | blue is a GPS or Java-fueled app that tells you whether you're near Democratic donors or GOP donors. And the MIT Media Lab has come up with a handheld version of iSee, the surveillance-avoidance map of Manhattan....
M E-L wrote this on October 4, 2004
In the first debate. Mean? Unfair? Hilarious? Accurate? Yes. Thanks DJCJ for the link....
M E-L wrote this on October 4, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on October 5, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on October 5, 2004
It's not just Nader! The New York Sun reports that the Election Spoiler May Turn Out to Be a Libertarian, saying that Michael Badnarik is actually polling 1% to 3%. And it may be higher, since most polls don't even...
M E-L wrote this on October 5, 2004
So I came in on the debate just as Edwards was nailing Cheney on Halliburton. Nice shot, John. Also, I thought the tactics on gay marriage were right on -- with Edwards saying how much Cheney loves his gay daughter....
M E-L wrote this on October 6, 2004
It's hard work! It's hard work!...
M E-L wrote this on October 6, 2004
A cool Get Out The Vote PSA targeting young Asians....
M E-L wrote this on October 6, 2004
Oh, and some profs from other business schools too. Open Letter to President....
M E-L wrote this on October 7, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on October 7, 2004
From Newsweek and (irony!) Factcheck.org....
M E-L wrote this on October 7, 2004
My impressions from last night? Bush still mad. Kerry even-keeled. Bush did better than the first debate -- but could he really have done worse? The three responses I'll remember: Bush is against the Dred Scott decision and slavery! Glad...
M E-L wrote this on October 9, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on October 10, 2004
This guy ran the 2nd debate transcripts through Microsoft Word's autosummarizer. Here's how Word boiled down Kerry's statements to 100 words:The president says I've changed my mind. The first president in 72 years to lose jobs. Believed it in 1998...
M E-L wrote this on October 10, 2004
The CIA: "A powerful "old guard" faction in the Central Intelligence Agency has launched an unprecedented campaign to undermine the Bush administration with a battery of damaging leaks and briefings about Iraq." And the infinitely more powerful U.S. Commission on...
M E-L wrote this on October 11, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on October 11, 2004
Funny!...
M E-L wrote this on October 12, 2004
It seems that Grover Norquist isn't the only Republican who makes inappropriate Holocaust comparisons. The internets are all abuzz over the decision of Sinclair Broadcasting (the same folks who didn't want their viewers to hear the names of fallen soldiers...
M E-L wrote this on October 12, 2004
You tell me. I don't know if this is what it puports to be or not. There are a lot of ways this could have been assembled after the fact. But he does seem to scratch, wiggle, or adjust something...
Colin wrote this on October 13, 2004
I thought Kerry didn't quite knock Bush out of the park like he did in the first two. Lots of more of the same rhetoric from both sides, and Bush looked more relaxed, connected to the audience than he did...
M E-L wrote this on October 14, 2004
Kerry's got this one wrapped up. How do I know? Well, he's captured the highly influential novelist vote. And, more importantly, the crucial Buffy demographic. (Oh, yeah, and a bunch of foreign policy experts, too.)...
M E-L wrote this on October 18, 2004
Sure, there's evidence of vote fraud all over. But shredding cards of registered Democrats? How crude. In my home state of Pennsylvania, the GOP is trying to make last-minute changes to polling places in Philadelphia. Because, if you're white, you...
M E-L wrote this on October 19, 2004
A couple days ago I was all gleeful because Kerry had won the endorsement of America's novelists and Joss Whedon. But Bush has countered with an international endorsement. Not content with being endorsed by the Al Qaeda group responsible for...
M E-L wrote this on October 20, 2004
MTV's PRElection results. Oh, if only MTV were the Real World......
Dot wrote this on October 20, 2004
Someone needs to make a real-time map of this. Link brought to you by happyrobot....
M E-L wrote this on October 25, 2004
Take this electoral issue quiz. You can agree or disagree with all six candidates' statements on 20 issues. If you want to vote on the issues, that is. My results after the jump....
M E-L wrote this on October 26, 2004
Remember Cheney's factcheck.org problem, when he mistakenly misdirected thousands of debate viewers -- only to have the left-leaning domain squatters redirect them to George Soros' site? Well, the GOP has a new TLD problem. This time, several campaign staffers have...
M E-L wrote this on October 27, 2004
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M E-L wrote this on October 28, 2004
I'll see your rap video and raise you a salsa ad!...
M E-L wrote this on October 29, 2004
All the more reason to take my vote on the road! Or to the sea? That said, and given that Hawaii is the only state with an Asian and Pacific Islander majority population, Asian Americans have even more opportunity to...
Dot wrote this on October 30, 2004
Dude speakin' to my Ida-homies. We were born in the same town!...
Dot wrote this on October 30, 2004
Another possible cause of delay is the counting of military ballots. A number of states, including the battlegrounds of Florida, Iowa, Colorado and Washington, will count military ballots that arrive after Election Day as long as they were postmarked...
Ennis wrote this on October 30, 2004
This is a twofer for the Republicans. Not only do they get to disqualify liberal voters, but they get to discourage people from signing petitions about medical marijuana. The following is from a BBC documentary on efforts to disenfanchise voters....
Ennis wrote this on October 30, 2004
A federal judge has barred electoral challengers from the Ohio polls. Great news in a pivotal state. Oh, and for a look at some pathetic attempts to sway the vote in Florida, read about some Bush supporters pretending to be...
M E-L wrote this on November 1, 2004
A liberal makes a centrist case for Kerry
M E-L wrote this on November 1, 2004
In 2000, Bush was clearly ahead in the day-before polls, but gave up 4 percentage points on election day. This year, his Monday lead over his opponent is slimmer than it was four years ago. A good omen for Kerry,...
Matt Fleischer-Black wrote this on November 1, 2004
That I really to live in bumfuck, USA. I find it lame enough that most restaurants close by 10PM, even on a weekend. Or that my gym, for which I pay a NYC level $65/month closes at 9PM on a...
Ennis wrote this on November 1, 2004
I went to vote just now in my lovely neighborhood in Washington, DC, a city rife with rumor of terrorist alerts, where everyone knows someone with the "inside scoop" about this or that credible threat, and where we have some...
MS wrote this on November 2, 2004
The Good News is that there was no October Surprise, no last minute attempt to produce a previously captured Bin Laden from under a bushell to hijack the political process. The Bad News is that they haven't captured anybody worth...
Ennis wrote this on November 2, 2004
We took the kids to vote today -- which in theory sounds all democracy-teaching, but in practice is "let's entertain the kids while standing in line." And the lines were long. Stirringly long, democratically long, strong turnout long in a...
M E-L wrote this on November 2, 2004
Because we need some laughs today: Fark's Photoshop contest theme is Completely Unexpected Election Results. A few favorites below:...
M E-L wrote this on November 2, 2004
The ruling that barred vote challengers from Ohio's polls has been overturned....
M E-L wrote this on November 2, 2004
Voter turnout is going to blow the polls' predictions out of the water
M E-L wrote this on November 2, 2004
Life imitates Onion....
M E-L wrote this on November 2, 2004
I know many of you will call this premature defeatism, but I've been in a funk since about 10:30 last night. I was riding home from my day of volunteer canvassing in the Philly suburbs, having decided at the last...
andrea wrote this on November 3, 2004
Kerry Calls Bush to Concede Election...
M E-L wrote this on November 3, 2004
Now is the time.
M E-L wrote this on November 4, 2004
County-by-county vote breakdown, shaded by strength of Republican and Democratic support, sized according to population. Map by Mark Newman at the University of Michigan, who isn't smoking anything, he swears....
M E-L wrote this on November 8, 2004
“Never mind where those nukes of Iraq’s is! Disregard that whole Evildoer Axis! We the people don’t care-a! Bush’ll vanquish the terra! More important, he won’t raise our taxes!” And three fine others. Via URLDJ. Anyone care to write more?...
M E-L wrote this on November 9, 2004
As a counter to the rising tide of punditry suggesting that "Moral Values" decided this year's election, I want to put forth the theory that I generally rely upon to explain any instance of disagreement with me: Stupidity. Or, as...
Jimpy wrote this on November 10, 2004
More news for those who think the country is divided into Red and Blue Country. I offer you the following map: Click for full-sized version. Counties are shaded according to the 2004 electoral votes. White dots indicate the home towns...
M E-L wrote this on November 17, 2004
Match the "percentage of voters citing moral and ethical values as their prime concern" with the year of the election: 1) 22% 2) 35% 3) 40% a) 1996 b) 2000 c) 2004 The answer is here....
M E-L wrote this on November 29, 2004
That's right. You thought, hey, I live in New York. Kerry will take those electoral college votes, no problem. Well, think again. Because New York's 31 votes went to ... John L. Kerry. Please, won't someone think of the proofreaders?...
M E-L wrote this on December 22, 2004
"No one on the left has succeeded in telling a story that brings together the different values to which we are committed."
M E-L wrote this on April 12, 2005
I don't get it. The right was hounding Kerry on the 180 and his refusal to sign it, giving some aura of legitimacy to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's claim to, um, truth. "What does he have to hide,"...
M E-L wrote this on June 7, 2005
How can we export democracy when we've got a shortage at home? Read 20 Amazing Facts About Voting In The United States and then read None Dare Call It Stolen: The evidence that something went extremely wrong last fall [2004]...
M E-L wrote this on April 25, 2006
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