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A LOT like last time, only more so: That is the picture that emerges of George W. Bush's winning majority in the 2004 presidential election. He held on to the votes of most of the groups that supported him in 2000, while making inroads among a few that did not. Most men, whites, Protestants, regular churchgoers, high earners, conservatives and, naturally, most Republicans voted for Mr. Bush. Women, blacks, Hispanics, young voters, the lower paid, moderates, liberals and, of course, Democrats gave John Kerry a majority of their votes. This portrait of the 2004 electorate emerges from interviews with 13,600...

By Cliff Kincaid | December 14th, 2004 (all photos added by M. Espinola) On October 28, 2004, just a few days before the election, George Soros spoke to the National Press Club. It was the last date in his national anti-Bush speaking tour. Soros is the most prominent drug legalizer in the world but campaigned to get Bush out of office mainly because of the Iraq war issue. Five television stations or networks, including C-SPAN, were there to record or cover the event. The media covered Soros but ignored the attack on an anti-drug activist, Steven Steiner, who had walked...

You remember the 1990s? Those wonderful Clinton years, when liberal Democrats, led by the great moralist James Carville, incessantly told us, "Character doesn't matter." Well, it's time to slap another egg on Carville's head because he and his party have been proven dead wrong again. During the Clinton impeachment proceedings, Republicans were forbidden from merely questioning the President's unethical behavior. Just in case you have forgotten, Clinton used his presidential stature to seduce a young, female intern in the Oval Office. To make matters even worse, he perjured himself in a court of law and coerced others to do the...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Galvanized politically in ways they have not been since the early 1990s, Hollywood's more liberal producers and writers increasingly are expressing their displeasure with President Bush with not only their wallets but also their scripts. In recent weeks, characters in prime time have moved beyond the typical Hollywood knocks against Washington politicians to calling out Bush directly or questioning his policies, including the decision to go to war in Iraq, the support of the anti-terrorism law and the backing of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. On the NBC show Whoopi, the hotelier played by...

<p>Growing optimism about the economy and a spike in support for going to war in Iraq have given President Bush a sharp year-end boost in his approval ratings... The boost for Bush comes after the capture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and a succession of brighter economic indicators that helped to reverse a decline in his ratings that began in the early fall. His overall approval rating stands at 59 percent in the poll, the highest since August, when increased U.S. casualties and terrorist attacks in Iraq led the public to question his policies.</p>