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Everybody knows -- people, polar bears, inanimate objects, Paris Hilton -- that relations between Republicans and Democrats are at some kind of modern low. That partly explains the fuss over judicial nominations in the Senate. But how to explain Howard Dean, who on "Meet the Press," given a chance to backpedal and profess his inner sweetness, declared that, so far as he was concerned, Tom DeLay sure was going to jail, and he, Howard Dean, would keep cheering on the pursuers? Dean, the Democratic national chairman, had popped off in patented fashion days earlier. Of DeLay, the House Republican leader,...

From the front lines of a swing state, New Mexico, courtesy of the Albuquerque Journal.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) This time around it's not so easy for Ralph Nader supporters on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Four years ago, many students sported buttons for the then-Green Party candidate. They held ``Ralph masks'' at rallies and spoke openly of planting the seeds for a more progressive party. Nader received more than 13-thousand votes in Dane County in 2000. That's twice as many as then-Vice President Al Gore's margin of victory in the whole state. These days Nader supporters who circulated petitions on campus supporting Nader on the ballot say they're the target of verbal abuse, cold stares...