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Of course we back Bush: DownerNovember 1, 2004IT WAS inevitable the federal government would show support for its American centre-right counterpart in the lead-up to the US elections, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today. But while Prime Minister John Howard had a "very close relationship" with George W. Bush, the coalition would also work effectively with an administration led by Democratic challenger John Kerry, he said. Mr Howard today came under attack from the opposition and Mr Kerry's camp for his open support of George W. Bush ahead of tomorrow's election. Mr Howard last week said he hoped Mr...

Boy, with all the information streaming in I sure wish Rush could have worked this very important weekend. It just seems to be getting crazy. How on earth can anyone vote for John Kerry. The man is an empty suit. I for one will be very disapointed if he somehow manages to get a victory here.

The Net The bets are in--Bush to win Published: October 29, 2004, 10:24 AM PDT By Andy McCue Special to CNET News.com   George W. Bush is heading for a surprise landslide victory in next week's presidential elections, going by online betting patterns. Although U.S. opinion polls are still finding it hard to separate President Bush from his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, customers of Betfair, an online betting exchange, have overwhelmingly backed the Republican candidate.  Betfair's latest figures show 2.3 million pounds ($4.2 million) have been wagered on Bush, while Kerry has attracted only 680,000 pounds ($1.25 million)...

  How to Steal an Election John Fund        The 2000 Florida election debacle led many Americans to worry about the integrity of our voting system. They're right to worry: the system is haphazard and sloppy. How sloppy? Well, at least eight of the 19 foreign-national September 11 hijackers had registered to vote in either Florida or Virginia.Election fraud is expanding. This past March, in just one of many recent cases, Texas representative Ciro Rodriguez, chairman of the congressional Hispanic Caucus, lost a close Democratic primary after a missing ballot box suddenly showed up in South Texas,...

Its official: John F. Kerry is an unabashed liberal. Of course, we conservatives knew it all along. During Thursday’s anti-Bush, leftist love fest, led by the still enraged – and deranged – Howard Dean, Sen. Kerry finally shed his “centrist,” “anti-Dean” façade and proudly revealed himself as the radical, ultra-liberal he really is. Sen. Kerry has effectively masked his staunch liberalism for months now, running a successful primary campaign as the supposedly mainstream Democratic alternative to Gov. Howard Dean. Yet, with the endorsement by Dean, a man who is perhaps the biggest loser in American political primary history, Sen. Kerry...