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Inside the Bubble, a documentary that promises to reveal how the Kerry campaign lost the 2004 election, has restored a bit of campaign-season buzz to Washington. The Drudge Report called the film a "devastating behind-the-scenes look." Lloyd Grove promised despair among Kerry loyalists and snickering from Hillary's followers as the doc revealed the Massachusetts senator, who still hopes to run in 2008, as boobish and flailing. Democrats e-mailed preview clips and weighed how much exposing the underbelly of a Democratic campaign would hurt the party. Defensive quotes from Kerry staffers about the film suggested they had something to hide. Titillating...

Ken Paulson took over as editor at USA Today in the wake of the Jack Kelley scandal. Kelley had embarrassed the paper by writing a series of stories filled with lies. Paulson said that would never happen again. Then, he presided over USA Today's own version of the CBS Memogate scandal. Like CBS, USA Today used those bogus documents to discredit President Bush's National Guard service. But Paulson managed to exercise a form of damage control because CBS used the documents first and put them on TV. Paulson acted as if the scandal was confined to CBS. Many in the...

After the recent presidential election, American Liberals must be feeling a little ill. Not often does a nation so overwhelmingly reject out of hand an ideology. Nevertheless, make no mistake the results at the polls on November 2, 2004 were a complete rejection of the leftist mentality that the American political left would foist upon this great nation. To get the proper perspective on just how convincing the Republican victory was consider these facts. President George W. Bush received more votes than any presidential candidate has ever received, nearly 60 million of them, well over 3 million more than his...

When I titled my book “Conservatives Are From Mars, Liberals Are From San Francisco,” I could just as easily have pointed out that liberals are from Hollywood. It really is a different planet from the one most of us live on. To begin with, it is populated with high school drop-outs and drama majors making millions of dollars a year, convinced they should decide how the rest of us think, live and vote. What you must never forget about these pampered pets is that the first lesson they learned in acting class was to get in touch with their feelings....

Reading the poor lamenting souls on the left right now is really sad.  They are beside themselves not only with loathing of those who beat them in the election but have reduced themselves to the antics of third graders. Josh Marshall got into this with his smarmy comments about James Dobson's interview with George Stephanopoulos from this last Sunday. The beef that Marshall has with him is that Dobson dared to say that Senator Patrick Leahy acts as though he hates God's people. Dobson neither retracted his statement when pressed on it - nor did he apologize. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But Dr....

WHY BUSH WILL WIN By DICK MORRIS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 29, 2004 -- HERE'S a two-part test to determine who will win on Tuesday: a) Ask yourself: What is the issue we are talking about these days? Are we focused on terrorism and Iraq, or on health care and jobs? The answer is obvious: terrorism and Iraq.

Schwarzenegger Says He Won't Travel More for Bush By Adam Tanner, Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 27) - Popular California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Wednesday he spurned White House invitations to campaign more widely for President Bush and has agreed to just one joint appearance. Such aloofness could prove fatal to an ordinary politician. But the Hollywood superstar and former Mr. Universe, a moderate Republican, didn't seem too worried. "For me it's a balancing act, of course you know, because if I don't campaign for President Bush, the Republicans will be angry. If I campaign for President Bush the Democrats...

A week ago John Kerry climbed into this year's equivalent of Michael Dukakis's tank--a crisply pressed, fully tailored haute couture hunting suit, capped by an Armani-looking chapeau. The visual impact was Boston-effete and no doubt the last straw for every bluejeaned, layered-jacketed and baseball-capped hunter the Kerry campaign sought to persuade. It was the symbolic climax of the Kerry campaign. Next Tuesday--barring some substantial, unexpected event--George W. Bush is likely to be re-elected.

Why Truman Defeats Dewey - and Bush Beats Kerry? By William J. Stuntz Published 10/26/2004 An incumbent President from the heartland faces a strong, experienced challenger from the Northeast. The challenger is strong in part because the incumbent seems weak -- inarticulate and gaffe-prone. But not too weak: Insiders make jokes about him, but he seems to connect with ordinary voters outside the Boston-New York-Washington, D.C. corridor. (Within that corridor he is plainly unpopular, and the Northeastern media overwhelmingly oppose his reelection.) When he came to office, the incumbent had only modest experience. No one had thought of him as...

"...As the news round-up demonstrates...it only rallied support for Ann and she was able to crack a few more jokes at liberals expense. And as the video shows the two boys who did it obviously had been taught to throw like girls...what I love at the end of this video is that the camera man was able to get footage of the arrested twerps and one is being forced to stare at the sign advertising Coulter's appearance."

Bush, Kerry or Nader? Who would you choose if election were this week?Live Vote If the presidential election were held this week, who would you vote for? * 1854317 responses George W. Bush 58% John Kerry 42% Ralph Nader 0%

Current status: Bush 222 Kerry 207

CHATTING WITH A LONGTIME GOP OPERATIVE I wish Bush supporters who feel pessimistic or jittery could listen to the phone conversation I just had with a longtime GOP operative. This gentleman, who has been in politics longer than I have been alive, states: * If the Washington Post/ABC tracking poll gets any more separation in the coming days, and there’s one or two good state polls for Bush, this race is over. * The University of Cincinnati poll showing Kerry up by 2 is “garbage.” It’s conducted over an entire week. The internals show Kerry leading among men 50 to...

Jim Mogen has three weeks to find 600 lawyers. Every day now, in a blitz of phone calls and e-mails, the St. Paul DFL party chairman is rushing to recruit and train an army of volunteers from law firms and law schools for a high-stakes mission: to watch for any hint of trouble at precincts in every corner of the state on Election Day -- and to pounce on it. "This effort is 100 times bigger than before," he said. "The presidential race in 2000 really opened our eyes to what can happen." Mogen's challenge is part of a huge...

"Too liberal" tag sticking to Kerry  PRINCETON, NJ -- After trailing Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in voter support throughout much of the Democratic primary season, President George W. Bush has taken a slight lead in the race for president. According to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted March 26-28, Bush has picked up four points compared to early March, putting him slightly ahead of Kerry among registered voters: 49% to 46%. Earlier this month, Bush had trailed Kerry by five points, 45% to 50%.  Horse Race -- Recent Trend registered voters Third-party candidate Ralph Nader's ultimate impact on the...

Indian voters will elect a new parliament in four stages starting April 20. India's independent election commission will hold voting for national polls on four days: April 20 and 26, and May 5 and 10. The votes will be counted on May 13. Voting in India is staggered to allow paramilitary soldiers and election officials to move around the country to provide polling security - the world's largest electoral exercise. Nearly 650 million people out of India's billion-plus population will be eligible to vote. The polls will pit the Bharatiya Janata Party, which heads the current ruling coalition, against the...

For months, President Bush has been a sitting duck, taking incoming rhetorical fire from Democratic opponents and a willing media eager to bring down his poll numbers so they can have themselves a contest. The poll numbers are down, and it appears there will be a real contest. It is time for the president to return fire. On NBC's "Meet the Press" interview with Tim Russert on Sunday (Feb. 8), the president again defended his decision to invade Iraq and topple the murderous dictator, Saddam Hussein. The interview was OK, but he didn't say much that he hasn't said already...

<p>President Bush received credit for attending Air National Guard drills in the fall of 1972 and spring of 1973 -- a period when his commanders have said he did not appear for duty at bases in Montgomery, Ala., and Houston -- according to two new documents obtained by the Globe.</p>

Todd Mielke is running for Nethercutt's seat.

I am sorry to see Rep. Foley drop out of this race...albeit for "family reasons". He really would have given Sen. Graham a run for his money. I am curious...does anyone else have the money-raising and moderate voter appeal that Rep. Foley has? He is a true, fiscal conservative.... Can we still pick up this seat without him? I know a lot of hard-right activists have issues of the alleged allegations of his homosexual tendencies. To me...not an issue.