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<p>For Democrats eager to retake the White House, it must be awfully tempting to view 2004 as a repeat of 1992. In that year, after all, the Republican incumbent was named George Bush, and he had just won a war, or at least a battle, against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The Democrats went on to win their first presidential election in almost a generation.</p>

The people have called an election, and the political elites of both major parties hate it. So does big business and, for the most part, the media. But it's amazing the level of ownership real people feel over the recall. It is something they have done in defiance of California's ruling establishment...

Hey guys, Quick question. There is a rally in DC this weekend for Gulf War Veterans who were suffering from Gulf War Syndrome. A friend of mine is going to be speaking at it and I was trying to find out if C-SPAN will be carrying it. If anyone knows can you bump me.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush's lofty poll numbers are certain to decline, his pollster warned supporters on Wednesday, as the Democratic voter base solidifies ahead of the 2004 presidential election campaign. Bush's approval ratings have risen into the low to mid-70 percent range after the successful conclusion of the war in Iraq, well short of the 90 percent ratings his father earned after the Gulf War in 1991 but still destined for a fall.

The only time I ever voted for a Democrat was in a mock Presidential election when I was in the 8th grade in 1976. I voted for Carter because I thought Ford was "boring" and being a peanut farmer was "cool". I knew nothing of policy at the time and was disappointed when Ford "won" my Junior High School but happy when Carter won the real thing.My next memory of political awareness was coming home from High School and hearing Reagan was shot. I cried and sat by the TV until I was sure he would survive. He suddenly was...

<p>WASHINGTON -- A House hearing into the role played by Perot Systems in California's electricity crisis fizzled Monday when the star witness, Texas billionaire Ross Perot, decided not to attend.</p> <p>Perot's absence left Rep. Doug Ose, the Sacramento Republican whose House Government Reform energy policy subcommittee was conducting the hearing, with little to show for the afternoon's effort except grief.</p>

<p>WHEN Ross Perot sat down before a legislative committee last week, the Fifth Amendment never came up. Ross Perot is no Kenneth Lay.</p> <p>Perot snatched 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential race partly on his appeal as a straight-talking anti-politician. His ideas were confused, but his rhetoric was direct.</p> <p>Perot was similarly unabashed when he appeared before the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Price Manipulation of the Wholesale Energy Market, which is trying to figure out why the electricity market went haywire in 2000.</p>

SACRAMENTO, Calif.- Former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot denied Thursday that his consulting company showed power suppliers how to manipulate California's energy market to drive up wholesale prices. "These allegations are unfounded," Perot told a panel of state lawmakers. A California Senate committee is investigating the state's energy crisis and any role played by Perot Systems as well as power suppliers. State Sen. Joe Dunn said Perot Systems outlined "flaws in the system to market participants" after providing computer help to the California Independent System Operator, the power grid manager, and the now-defunct Power Exchange as the state launched its...

<p>SACRAMENTO -- Two-time presidential candidate H. Ross Perot said Thursday his company warned California's energy officials about flaws in its deregulated market.</p> <p>A state Senate committee is investigating the role of Texas-based Perot Systems in California's power crisis. The computer company helped launch California's electricity markets.</p>

<p>Company denies it showed others how to 'game' energy market. New memo surfaces in scandal.</p> <p>SACRAMENTO – Perot Systems adamantly defended itself Friday against allegations that it showed others how to "game" California's energy market, even as another memo surfaced that outlined Perot's options to help Southern California Edison manipulate the market and complimented two Perot employees for their "devious" minds.</p>

<p>Records show Perot Systems coached traders, including Edison, on market 'options.'</p> <p>SACRAMENTO – Experts hired by the company that helped craft California's deregulated electricity market told Enron Corp. how to manipulate the system and pitched similar "gaming options" to Southern California Edison, according to documents released Thursday.</p>