Amanda Griscom Little, Grist.org. October 26, 2004. With the presidential race neck and neck in Florida, environmental issues are being swept into the fray by high-ranking politicians and hot-ticket celebrities alike.
Frank Joyce, AlterNet. October 26, 2004. The Bush campaign has been very successful in appealing to the fear and anxiety of the electorate. Fear is a powerful motivator, but can be trumped by hope, courage, toughness and confidence.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 26, 2004. The conservatives don't play politics with real grassroots activism. Their top-down style and "buy the movement" approach is better suited for Astroturf – and this week, they're on the march.
Laura Flanders, In These Times. October 25, 2004. From ending the Equal Pay Initiative to championing the Partial Birth Abortion Act, Bush's record speaks for itself.
Laura Flanders, Air America. October 25, 2004. Republicans have announced that they're dredging up some dusty old law to send thousands of recruits to polling places in Ohio on Nov. 2 to challenge the qualifications of Americans as they try to cast their votes.
Steve Cobble, Charles Shaw, AlterNet. October 25, 2004. It's time to get prepared for Nov. 3 and the following weeks – the counting and manipulation could really get started after election night.
Erica Pedersen, AlterNet. October 25, 2004. What kind of role can punk rockers, known for an anti-system ethic and a violent rejection of complacency, have in the election?
Don Hazen, AlterNet. October 25, 2004. Celebrities – including Marisa Tomei, Gina Gershon and Daphne Zuniga – describe their get-out-the-vote strategies for Battleground Ohio at an L.A. fundraiser, and Elvis Costello rocks.
ZP Heller, AlterNet. October 23, 2004. New York is safe for Kerry, but two progressive candidates are running uphill races to upset Republican incumbents for seats in Congress.
Chris Bull, PlanetOut. October 23, 2004. Teresa Heinz Kerry discusses the idea of tolerance in America and American families, saying "I would like to help bring about the day when no father feels ashamed of or scared for their child."
Jules Siegel, AlterNet. October 22, 2004. Orthodox leftists seem to be incapable of understanding the size and intensity of the anti-drug war movement. Do they think these people don't vote?
John Gartner, AlterNet. October 22, 2004. As Kerry edges ahead in the Pennsylvania polls, voter turnout in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia will likely determine who collects its 21 electoral votes.
Bernice Yeung, AlterNet. October 22, 2004. When a British newspaper targets residents of Clark County, Ohio with a letter-writing campaign hoping to sway voters, that old Yankee spirit gets fired up.
Steven Wishnia, Indypendent. October 22, 2004. In Philadelphia and its suburbs, voters' mix of concerns on issues points to no clear advantage for the candidates. That's where the activists come in to play.
Lucy Komisar, AlterNet. October 22, 2004. As a senator, John Kerry was a tenacious investigator and exposed BCCI, an international criminal bank, and its murderous clients. The experience should serve him well in dealing with the international threats we face today.
Dick Meister, Pacific News Service. October 21, 2004. As many as one-fourth of votes may have been cast by today, in a system set up for potential abuse – and November 2 is still 12 days away.
Adrienne Maree Brown, WireTap. October 21, 2004. New voters hold their ground and stake their tents at Camp Out for Change, an event to mark the first day of early voting in Florida.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. October 20, 2004. All indications point to a radical turnaround in young voter turnout in the coming election – a turnaround fueled by a force more powerful than all the electoral hurdles placed in young people's way.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. October 19, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: How Gallup got it wrong, Kerry and Bush tied in the major polls, a note on Nader, and a final verdict on the debates.
Florence Williams, High Country News. October 19, 2004. Their fathers were Western conservation giants. Can the younger Udalls bridge today's social and political divides and leave their own legacy?
Jonathan Rowe, Washington Monthly. October 19, 2004. The Republican president raised fees on exactly the things he wants immigrants to do – work hard, play by the rules, and become citizens.
Harry G. Levine, Craig Reinarman, AlterNet. October 19, 2004. As we saw in 2000, and as we're seeing now, no poll can accurately predict who will win the popular vote in such a close election.
Howard Zinn, The Progressive. October 19, 2004. With the failure so obvious, and the president tripping over his words trying to pretend otherwise, it astonishes us that a majority of Americans believe the president has done "a good job" in the war on terrorism.
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet. October 18, 2004. In the adult entertainment industry, discretion has always trumped politics – until the Bush administration gave them a reason to get organized.
Bernice Yeung, AlterNet. October 18, 2004. Generational political splits in immigrant families are commonplace in America, and so are attempts by the second generation to nudge their parents in a more progressive direction.
Jennifer Nix, AlterNet. October 18, 2004. Organizers of the Films to See Before You Vote Tour have packaged this season's best political films into "film-festival-in-a-box" kits, which will bring the movies to key battleground states before the election.
Jiva Manske, AlterNet. October 16, 2004. A canvasser for America Coming Together in Tampa Bay, Florida explains why spending six hours a day in the heat to speak with voters is worth every minute.
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. October 15, 2004. Republican operative Nathan Sproul's company is under investigation for allegedly destroying voter registration forms signed by Democrats. Now comes new evidence about Sproul's connections to the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Matt Taibbi, New York Press. October 15, 2004. Follow the competition – America's worst campaign journalist hacks go head to head in a bracketed tournament leading up to the election.
Carolyn Crane, The Nation. October 15, 2004. Utah Phillips, a committed non-voter who was taught that his body is a ballot, will be casting a real ballot this year.
Adrienne Maree Brown, WireTap. October 14, 2004. "Kerry is three for three with 18 days left for these boys to drop it like its hot in every battleground state in the country. May the best Skull & Bones Yalie boy rise victorious."
Michael Gaworecki, WireTap. October 14, 2004. One enforces standardized tests, the other promises a federal trust fund; one pushes shame, the other promotes equality. Contrast and compare the Bush and Kerry approaches to education in America.
Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com. October 14, 2004. A voter registration outfit largely funded by the Republican National Committee is being accused of destroying the registration forms of hundreds of newly registered Democratic voters in Nevada.
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet. October 14, 2004. An activist learns the value of stepping outside the progressive bubble when she reaches out to women voters leaning toward the GOP.
El Fisgón, Tomdispatch.com. October 14, 2004. The typical Mexican political boss has an inclination toward violence and cruelty; he despises legality and intellectual activity, has a personal history of alcoholism and dissipation and lies systematically. Sound familiar?
AlterNet. October 14, 2004. Some of AlterNet's writers and editors offer quick reactions and instant analyses on Wednesday night's final Presidential debate.
Steven Rosenfeld, Jan Frel, AlterNet. October 14, 2004. John Kerry showed the nation he has practical ways to deal with America’s problems. Meanwhile, Bush dodged all the difficult questions.
Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor. October 13, 2004. The next president - whether it is George W. Bush or John Kerry - will probably have an opportunity to shift the balance of power on the U.S. Supreme Court in a way that could hold for decades.
Ruy Teixeira, The Center for American Progress and The Century Foundation. October 13, 2004. Public Opinion Watch: After the debates the central dynamics of the presidential election have changed – and Kerry is much better off for it.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. October 13, 2004. Call it ludicrous, but the most important election of our lifetime is coming down to who can best pacify the electorate's inner baby.
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. October 13, 2004. Voter registration has reached a fever pitch overseas, where expatriate Americans are signing up for absentee ballots in record numbers.
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