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Remember the brilliant idea by the Guardian, a left-wing British newspaper, to help Sen. John Kerry win Ohio? In 2000, Democrat Al Gore won Clark County, Ohio, by a slender margin of 324 votes. So, in its Oct. 13 issue, the Guardian announced "Operation Clark County." "The idea was simple: Give U.K. readers frustrated with the Bush administration a way to help drive him from office," explains Andy Bowers at Slate.com. "The left-wing newspaper targeted one swing county in one swing state and invited readers to send one-on-one letters to independent American voters." More than 11,000 Guardian readers responded, but...

Gary Wills, the liberal writer and history professor at Northwestern University, thinks that the fundamentalist Christians who ensured President Bush's re-election on Tuesday are a bunch of ignorant religious fanatics -- no different, really, than Islamic terrorists -- who have done nothing less than end the Enlightenment. "The secular states of modern Europe do not understand the fundamentalism of the American electorate. It is not what they had experienced from this country in the past. In fact, we now resemble those nations less than we do our putative enemies," Mr. Wills said in an op-ed piece in the New York...

www.suntimes.com Back to regular viewhttp://www.suntimes.com/output/will/cst-edt-geo04.html Refusal to accept reality sank Dems November 4, 2004BY GEORGE WILL ''I think the Union army had something to do with it.'' -- Gen. George Pickett, years afterward, on why his charge at Gettysburg failed. John Kerry's liberalism had something to do with his defeat. Hence so did this: By Jan. 20, 2009, all the elected presidents for 44 consecutive years will have come from three Southern states -- Texas, Arkansas, Georgia -- and Southern California. Kerry ran a high-risk ''biography candidacy'' based on a four-month period 35 years ago. His contrasting silence about his...

News Home - Help Bush Makes Final Bid for Votes with Marathon Sweep 12 minutes ago By Steve Holland WILMINGTON, Ohio (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), his re-election bid hanging in the balance, went on a last sweep through battleground states on Monday urging get-out-the-vote efforts in his race with Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites). Reuters Photo Latest Headlines: · Bush Has One-Point Lead on Kerry - Reuters PollReuters - 8 minutes ago · Bush, Kerry Make Most of Last Campaign Day AP - 9 minutes ago · Judge Bars Challengers From Ohio Polls...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew at a healthy 3.7 percent annual rate in the third quarter this year, bolstered by strong consumer spending and accompanied by the lowest inflation in decades... The third-quarter expansion in gross domestic product (search) — the measure of total output within the nation's borders — came in below Wall Street economists' forecasts for a 4.2 percent pace of growth but still was up from 3.3 percent in the second quarter. It was one of the final pieces of economic data before Tuesday's U.S. presidential election in which the economy's condition has been a focal...

"The Kerry campaign's concerns about its candidate's failure to rally black voters in numbers similar to those received by either the Gore or Clinton presidential campaigns have become a staple of the daily news," Peter Kirsanow writes at National Review Online. "Whereas in most elections, a candidate's base support solidifies as the election approaches, several polls show that Kerry's black support has actually been eroding over the last two months," said Mr. Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Kerry's late-summer poll numbers among blacks hovered around 84 percent. By early October, that percentage had fallen to...

News Home - Help U.S. Stocks Rise as Oil Prices Tumble 1 hour, 7 minutes ago By Mark McSherry NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday on investor relief that oil prices fell sharply after a higher-than-expected rise in crude stocks last week. Related Quotes PGDDAFLCAHAAPLDJIANASDAQS&P 500 51.5642.8635.3947.5749.859976.961960.651118.98 -1.65+1.46-2.25+8.24+1.88+88.48+31.86+7.89 delayed 20 mins - disclaimerQuote Data provided by Reuters   U.S. light, sweet crude oil futures tumbled $1.82 to $53.35 a barrel, slipping from an all-time high of $55.67 hit on Monday and easing concern among stock investors that high energy costs could curb consumer spending and hurt company...

SCRANTON - U.S. Sen. Zell Miller, D-Georgia, who is backing GOP President Bush, appealed to about 200 supporters at a morning rally in Scranton. Miller, who gave the keynote speech at the National Republican Convention this summer, touched on socially conservative issues such as supporting gun rights and tax cuts but opposing abortion and flag-burning. "I have never seen a presidential candidate of either party who was as far out of touch, who was as far out of the mainstream with the average American, as is John Kerry," Miller said. "There is a huge gap between what this man thinks...

DENVER — Public health officials say Americans should roll up their sleeves for a dose of reality: For most of us, getting a flu shot is not a life-or-death matter. The flu vaccine will not necessarily prevent you from experiencing the flu's miserable symptoms, like fever, hacking cough, runny nose and "hit-by-a-truck" body aches. Studies have shown that the shot generally works about 52 percent of the time. If you are elderly or chronically ill, the vaccine can help jump-start your body's weakened defenses and perhaps prevent the worst from happening if you do catch the virus. But the millions...

Hang on, poll-weary Americans, Election Day is almost upon us. The latest presidential polling numbers sent to Inside the Beltway range from a virtual dead heat to the most lopsided results we could find: an IncrediMail poll that gives George W. Bush 74.4 percent to John Kerry's 25.6 percent (no margin of error listed).

"The Christian faith has been misrepresented again today by John Kerry," the Rev. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said in response to a speech that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry gave Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "Kerry said, on the one hand, that he disagrees with the Church on abortion, and yet that society must protect its most vulnerable members. "That's exactly why the Church is against abortion and requires Kerry — and every public official — to extend protection to the most vulnerable, the children in the womb. Mr. Kerry obviously does not understand the...

Religion looms larger over the upcoming American presidential election than at any time since 1960. George W. Bush's born-again Christianity, critics charge, renders him oblivious and uninterested in empirical reality. Worse, that faith leads the president to view himself as God's anointed, whose judgment cannot be questioned and needs never change in light of shifting circumstances. The most recent New York Times Magazine devotes nearly a dozen pages to these claims. Yet it was the allegedly rigid Bush who quickly grasped the new world revealed by 9/11. Old strategies of deterrence, he noted, are irrelevant against shadowy terrorist networks with...

Though the federal government pays less than 10 percent of the cost of educating America's children, that isn't stopping Georgia's U.S. Senate candidates from spending a lot of time touting their views on education. On the campaign trail, Republican Congressman Johnny Isakson frequently mentions his support of the federal No Child Left Behind law, which requires schools to show improvement on standardized test scores. Democratic Congresswoman Denise Majette has unveiled a proposal for "a new GI Bill" that would expand education and health benefits for veterans. She also has proposed a national lottery to pay for a college scholarship program...

We were chatting the other day with Richard Murray, professor of political science at the University of Houston, who made an interesting observation: No matter whether George W. Bush is re-elected, the president's home state of Texas could be the largest obstacle standing between him and a majority of the national vote. Four years ago, Bush collected 50,456,062 total votes to Al Gore's 50,996,582. It was that close only because of the hefty 59 percent margin Bush pulled out of Texas. Fortunate or not, the favorite son won his state with 1.3 million votes to spare. Current Texas polls show...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41028 Thursday, October 21, 2004 Stop voter fraud: Start with the lawyers Posted: October 21, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Craige McMillan © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com "Every crossroad in American life has a lawyer stationed there, levying a toll before you are permitted to go on your way. The election [Florida 2000] has brought home to us again how much we are in thrall to the members of this guild of men and women who take so much from the society and give so little in...

FahrenHYPE 9/11 takes on Fahrenheit 9/11’s dishonesty. Army Specialist Peter Damon...(in) Iraq... he and his best friend... an explosion went off. Bush was killed. ...you see for the first time that Damon didn't escape the incident unharmed. The explosion that killed his friend also took his arms from the elbows down... Damon is angry, and his voice takes on the tones of a man who knows he has been exploited. He is not angry at President Bush for sending him to Iraq...He is angry with filmmaker Michael Moore. While lying in a hospital bed... NBC... interviewed the wounded soldier... Moore......

"With only two weeks to go, President Bush and his campaign demonstrated once again that they are playing chess while Kerry is playing checkers," Dick Morris writes in the New York Post. "In a feat of strategy worthy of the greatest admiration, they realized that the entire race would change complexion once the third debate kindled a focus on domestic disagreements in what had been, until then, a foreign-policy contest," Mr. Morris said. "Knowing that Kerry — or any Democrat — has an advantage in a contest over domestic policy, they prepared for a parry during and after the third...

"The memoir about the Kerry-Edwards campaign that will be the best-seller will reveal the debate rehearsal aimed at focusing national attention on the fact that Vice President [Dick] Cheney has a daughter who is a lesbian," ...William Safire writes. "That this twice-delivered low blow was deliberate is indisputable. The first shot was taken by John Edwards... The vice president, to show it was no secret or anything his family was ashamed of, had referred to it briefly twice this year, but the press — respecting family privacy — had properly not made it a big deal. Mr. Safire added: "...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that terrorists are aiming to derail U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s chances at re-election through their attacks in Iraq . "I consider the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at coalition forces but more personally against President Bush " Putin said at a news conference after a regional summit in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. "International terrorism has as its goal to prevent the election of President Bush to a second term," he said. "If they achieve that goal, then that will give international...

Softer Voices stresses need to keep families safe from terrorism A new 527 political group targeting women has announced a television advertising campaign in key battleground states to convince female voters President Bush would make American families safer than would John Kerry. In a statement, Softer Voices describes itself as "an organization of women with families, representing citizens particularly concerned with national security issues, the economy, health care, education and the culture." Lisa Schiffren is a board member and spokesperson for the group. Said Schiffren: "The defining question of this presidential election is clear: 'Who is the strong leader committed...