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Ralph Nader has declared that he is again a candidate for President. As this 1971 article from The New Republic shows, the "Nader for President" movement has a long history (though Nader did not finally run for office until 1996): A funny thing happened to Edmund Muskie in
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Before the results of the February 17 Wisconsin primary is announced, here are the current totals in the Amazon primary. Change since February 10: John Kerry $5,325 John Edwards 1,290 Howard Dean 440 Dennis Kucinich 251 Al Sharpton 245 Total amount: John Kerry $31,939 John Edwards 14,
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1. If you look at the state totals, you'd think that John Edwards would be happier with the Tennessee result (losing to Kerry by 15 points) than the Virginia result (losing to Kerry by 25), and perhaps he is. I'm not sure I would be. The
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1. John Edwards' strategy in this primary was to get the "NASCAR dads" to vote for him, and he seems to have succeeded. Winning this segment of the vote is important, because it gives him a base (albeit a small one), and with a base, he has
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Before the results of the February 10 primaries are announced, here are the current totals in the Amazon primary. Change since February 7: John Kerry $4,011 John Edwards 870 Howard Dean 760 Wesley Clark 690 Dennis Kucinich 485 Al Sharpton 5 Total amount: John Kerry $26,614 John Edwards
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Before the results of the February 7 caucuses are announced, here are the current totals in the Amazon primary. Change since February 3: John Edwards $4,038 John Kerry 3,447 Howard Dean 1,737 Wesley Clark 1,647 Al Sharpton 235 Dennis Kucinich 190 Total amount: John Kerry $22,
Media
From a book—a book I strongly recommend, for its on-going relevance—about press coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign: personallyprofessionally The Boys in the Bus Crouse has a point; certainly in my case. I was a journalist and a columnist in high school and college, and even today I
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You can now donate money to presidential campaigns through Amazon. After putting some money in John Edwards' jar, I looked at how much money each candidate had received so far: John Kerry $19,156 Howard Dean 10,078 Wesley Clark 9,007 John Edwards 8,134 Dennis Kucinich 1,
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Kevin Drum (CalPundit) notices how a key Bush administration phrase has evolved over the last year: March 2003: June 2003: October 2003: January 2004:
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In 1996, Arizona voted for Bill Clinton in the general election, between voting for Bush 41 in 1992 and Bush 43 in 2000. At the time, some speculated that Arizona voters had been so alienated from Bob Dole by the negative television advertisements run by the Steve Forbes campaign in
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The Dean campaign's Perfect Storm drizzled out tonight in Iowa. I think I know one reason why. One year at Ohio State, an ideologically driven group went all-out to win the student government presidential race. It had money, it had organization, it had eager volunteers; on paper, it
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With his endorsement of Wesley Clark, George McGovern perhaps answers those who compare McGovern to Howard Dean. Still, though, the similiarities between this account of the McGovern campaign in 1971 and what we've seen of the Dean campaign are interesting: To run as an "insurgent," the