Berkeley, California
Election fever has not yet swept California. Bush and Kerry have been muscled out of the political scene by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. That will probably change as the
Last week, I concluded with a few words about the dirty undercurrents of the Republican push against John Kerry (call it Kerryslandering).
Whats catching the notice of the establishment
The Republicans are not only running scared toward their fundamentalist base, as I noted last week, but theyre running Orwellian and courting embarrassment.
For the next eight months, as
When even the United States constitution becomes a weapon in George Bushs re-election campaign, you know the Republicans are running scared and running back home to their core voters.
A lie travels around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
Having enclosed this pithy truth in quotation marks I have perhaps convinced you that I am quoting
Americas election campaign consists of two intertwined quests.
First, there is the Democrats ongoing quest for the nomination, which now has John Kerry climbing to near-insuperable heights. Having won
The shape of the Democratic race is sharpening, like a fleet in the fog. Last week, I noted the (relatively) high turnout in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two
It was no coincidence that President George W. Bushs State of the Union (SOTU) speech was scheduled for the day after the Democratic Iowa caucuses. The aim, of course,
Its rather early to hazard sage appraisals of the race for the Democratic nomination but lets not let shortage of evidence deter us.
One pleasure in the Iowa
The brontosaurian length of American election campaigns is not a tribute to our collective fascination with politics. To the contrary, such is the political lethargy of the worlds oldest
America is at one of those tricky junctures when the forces of fierce reaction are wobbling and the forces of possible reform strain to find their footing. As the right
There are many flaws and dangers in George Bushs State of the Union address, as considered by Charles Peña and Paul Rogers in their accompanying articles. But what kind
