The American Staff

Florida. Florida is dead even at 48 percent to 48 percent, according to Monday’s Zogby poll, an improvement from John Kerry’s showing last week, and there are signs that the Democrats’ strategy of trying to appeal to younger Cuban Americans is paying dividends. According to a summer poll released by the New Democrat Network, which […]

Florida. Bad news for Floridians this week as yet another storm pounds the erstwhile Sunshine State. Bad news, too, for John Kerry as the Republican chief of the state’s Division of Elections announced that Hurricane Ivan could be used as a pretext for putting Ralph Nader on the presidential ballot despite a court order to […]

INDIANA. This is a race worth watching, thanks in part to a quirky cast of characters and the Hoosiers’ unpredictable voting patterns. Will they keep a Democratic governor and vote for a Republican president? That’s what happened in 2000. That governor, Frank O’Bannon, suffered a massive stroke and died last September while visiting Chicago. His […]

Florida. Florida is never far from the minds of either campaign’s top strategists, but Floridians had bigger fish to fry than the presidential campaign this August as the state suffered much devastation at the hands of Hurricane Charley. Conventional wisdom has it that then-President George Bush Senior and then-Governor Lawton Chiles both suffered mightily at […]

Arizona. Is Arizona really still purple? That’s the question on everyone’s mind these days. When last we checked in, the state’s rock-star senior senator, John McCain, had just reverted to good soldier and commenced stumping for George W. Bush in earnest — and that seemed to torpedo John Kerry’s Arizona prospects for good. (Two polls […]

Colorado. Pragmatism triumphed over principle in Tuesday’s dual Colorado Senate primaries. As expected, state Attorney General Ken Salazar, a pro-war moderate, easily defeated more liberal educator Mike Miles to win the Democratic nomination. The race on the Republican side was harder-fought. After the surprise retirement of incumbent Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell made the race competitive, […]

Iowa. This morning the city of Davenport exists, for a brief period, at the very nexus of the race for president, as both candidates make appearances only a few blocks away from each other. (John Kerry meets with business and labor leaders in the River Center at 10:00 a.m. and George W. Bush leads a […]

Don’t miss the wrap-up of The American Prospect‘s round-the-clock convention coverage. Below, you’ll find our blog from the climax of the convention on Thursday, as well as links to the earlier coverage. And we’ve got much more coverage than just the blog. Take a look at these great stories from Todd Gitlin, Robert Kuttner, Michael […]

Florida. Some good news for John Kerry in last week’s American Research Group poll of likely Florida voters, which gave him a 47-44-3 lead, the largest ARG has ever registered for Kerry in the Sunshine State. Factoring Nader out leaves Kerry with a slightly stronger 49-45 lead. Even better, Kerry has now reached 100 percent […]

Colorado. In a debate taped Monday for broadcast on Friday, the two contenders for the GOP Senate nomination in Colorado, conservative Pete Coors and more conservative Rep. Bob Schaffer fell over each other to prove their fealty to the president’s Iraq policies. According to Schaffer (though not to actual intelligence professionals or Middle East analysts), […]