George Lakoff, The Nation. November 24, 2004. If progressives communicate their values clearly, most people will recognize them as their own, and more deeply American than those currently put forth by conservatives.
Molly Ivins, AlterNet. November 23, 2004. If the worst is yet to come from this administration, it's going to be hard to save room for all the outrage and indignation that's coming our way.
Steven Hill, AlterNet. November 23, 2004. Forget about "money buying elections." Congressional redistricting in California allowed the politicians to handpick their voters before voters picked them.
Danny Goldberg, AlterNet. November 23, 2004. Liberal Hollywood has been blamed for swinging moral values voters towards Bush. But could Whoopi's joke or Jennifer Aniston's expletive really have been so influential?
Rachel Neumann, AlterNet. November 23, 2004. MoveOn mobilized hundreds of thousands before the election. This weekend, almost 20,000 people met to tell them what they should be doing next. But can they turn all that energy into a unified progressive vision?
Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect. November 22, 2004. Legislators are supposed to respond to the will of the people. With the GOP, it's the other way around.
Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet. November 22, 2004. The author of "The Right Nation" says the gulf separating Democrats from ordinary Americans can only be bridged with real solutions to real problems.
Lou Dubose, LA Weekly. November 22, 2004. Will Alberto Gonzales' move to Attorney General give him the conservative chops he needs for the Christian right to rubber stamp his passage to the Supreme Court?
Sandeep Kaushik, TomPaine.com. November 19, 2004. Derek accomplished something that most liberals believe is no longer possible in present-day America: he convinced voters in a relatively conservative swing district to vote their economic interests.
Jon Frosch, AlterNet. November 19, 2004. For one expatriate, living abroad and watching the election unfold from afar offers no solace. How can one American shoulder his grief as well as the grief of all of France?
John Nichols, The Nation. November 18, 2004. Condoleezza Rice claimed she could not appear before the 9/11 Commission because it would break precedents set by past national security advisers. But she had no qualms about breaking precedents to advance Bush's campaign.
Michael Erard, Texas Observer. November 18, 2004. The next move for the left in the frame war is to accept that it’s okay to cherry-pick reality as long as it conforms to a frame that’s morally acceptable.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. November 17, 2004. Exit polls have always drawn samples that are off the real world results and have always had to be corrected (weighted) to eliminate bias. According to the unweighted exit polls of the past, we would have had Presidents Dukakis and Gore.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation. November 16, 2004. For the next four years and well beyond, liberals and progressives will need to emulate the original Christians, who stood against imperial Rome with their bodies, their hearts and their souls.
John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton, AlterNet. November 15, 2004. Rather than focusing on the growing power of the conservative movement, much of the liberal rhetoric during the campaign focused on Bush's flaws and the failings of his administration.
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. November 15, 2004. For the religious right, Bush was like any other stealth candidate. No matter his unqualifications, he delivered for them in his first term, and so they rewarded him with their votes in record numbers.
Matt Taibbi, New York Press. November 13, 2004. Bush is our fault because too many of us found it easier to hate him than find a way to love each other. If we work on love, we won't need to rely on the cynics in the DLC to come up with the right "formula" the next time around.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 12, 2004. An effort led by Common Cause and the Alliance for Democracy is underway in Ohio to conduct a statewide recount.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. November 12, 2004. How the Kerry campaign was run into the ground by the pollsters, the strategists, the consultants – and the Clintonistas.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. November 11, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: Kerry got killed by the white working class; a majority of voters never even trusted Kerry on the economy; cultural alienation played a big part in the loss.
Michael Ventura, Austin Chronicle. November 11, 2004. What's our job? To dedicate our lives to preserving and passing on what we love, so that if things ever get sane again there'll be something left.
Michael Lerner, AlterNet. November 11, 2004. Many voters looked to the right for the 'politics of meaning,' and were pushed away by progressives' knee-jerk hostility to religion.
Evan Derkacz, AlterNet. November 10, 2004. Nov. 2 wasn't a wash for progressive causes. Anti-war senators won by landslides, polluters were voted out of office and progressive initiatives on the minimum wage, education, and drug policy won in states that Bush dominated.
David Corn, The Nation. November 10, 2004. Clear away the rhetoric, and what mostly remains are the odd early exit polls, troubling instances of bad electronic voting, and curious – or possibly curious – trends in Florida. This may be the beginning of a case; it is not a case in itself.
Raj Jayadev, Pacific News Service. November 9, 2004. "Voting is about choosing what's in front of you, while a movement is about creating choices. The gulf is about imagination. As Desmond Tutu said, it's not just about having a seat at the table, it's about setting the menu. If young people really did set the menu, I doubt they would be serving up the Democratic Party or John Kerry."
William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut.org. November 9, 2004. Even if Bush did really win, Nov. 2 was a voting disaster. It's not too late for there to be an accurate count, but how to get the tallies from the black boxes?
Bill Moyers, NOW with Bill Moyers. November 9, 2004. Gorver Norquist, leader of the American conservative movement, shares his vision of the next four years with the GOP in control of Washington.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 9, 2004. This is no time for cheerleading and playing what-if. It’s time to accept some political reality and rethink the way we engage in our politics.
The Black Commentator. November 9, 2004. Despite endless attempts from all sides to divide the electorate, blacks stood like a rock in defense of their own interests.
Rachel Neumann, AlterNet. November 9, 2004. Post Election Stress and Trauma Syndrome – PESTS – is sweeping the nation, with strange and often unexpected symptoms. The surprising medical diagnosis: That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
Van Jones, AlterNet. November 8, 2004. We have much to grieve – and celebrate. We birthed a multi-racial, inter-generational and nationwide pro-democracy movement. It may yet transform the country.
Tom Hayden, AlterNet. November 8, 2004. A transition to a new generation of leadership is needed if the massive outpouring of activism of the past year is to flourish and be funded for the future.
William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut.org. November 6, 2004. If Bush's first four years are any indication of what is to come, and if the movement continues to hammer him, history will remember him single worst President the nation has ever known.
Jeannette Batz Cooperman, AlterNet. November 5, 2004. I must abandon the solace of thinking my political opponents benighted, uneducated and cognitively impaired. But I refuse to think them more moral.
Andrew Tyndall, MediaChannel.org. November 4, 2004. The networks' big exit poll failure was not in using their data too early but in not asking the proper questions in the first place.
Liz Marlantes, Christian Science Monitor. November 4, 2004. The relatively close outcome reflects the risks for both parties of a base-mobilization strategy that looks first and foremost to drive up turnout among partisan supporters.
