A repeat of the recount?
Hope tells David Boies that his phone won't be ringing on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Experience tells him that it probably will. The master litigator who represented then-Vice President Al Gore...
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Sweeping up
Presidential campaigns are a strange hybrid of big vs. small, of fundamental issues such as war and visceral issues such as a smirk, a blend between electing the leader of...
Sweeping up
Presidential campaigns are a strange hybrid of big vs. small, of fundamental issues such as war and visceral issues such as a smirk, a blend between electing the leader of...
Campaign finance reform empowers the 527 groups
Of all the predictions about the effect of campaign finance reform, none might prove truer than the one about the damage it would do to the two main political parties....
Democrats don’t fool anyone in post-debate e-mail punditry
It was the personal touch that was most impressive. "Hi Ann," began the e-mail that landed in my inbox shortly after the first presidential debate Thursday on the University of...
Democrats don’t fool anyone in post-debate e-mail punditry
It was the personal touch that was most impressive. "Hi Ann," began the e-mail that landed in my inbox shortly after the first presidential debate Thursday on the University of...
Bush’s numbers master says debates count a lot
Matthew Dowd, balding before his time and lacking in the hard-edged Southern accent department, is one of those few pleasant faces among the consultant-warrior class in this presidential campaign. He...
Bush’s numbers master says debates count a lot
Matthew Dowd, balding before his time and lacking in the hard-edged Southern accent department, is one of those few pleasant faces among the consultant-warrior class in this presidential campaign. He...
Pennsylvania radiates red truth vs. blue truth
As a colleague recently put it, in this presidential campaign there is red truth and there is blue truth. Red truth tells you that George W. Bush served honorably in...
Dwelling on the distant past is futile
On a steamy night in Zaire 30 years ago, 60,000 boxing fans gathered in a stadium, and millions more on television, to watch heavyweight champion George (before the grill) Foreman...