Today Howard Dean’s campaign announced that it has raised at least $7.5 million in the second quarter of 2003 — a higher number than has yet been raised by any other Democrat running for president in a single quarter — from more than 59,000 people, including 48,000 first-time donors to the campaign. Only 129 donors […]
Garance Franke-Ruta
Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
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Zero Sum
At midnight tonight, voting will close in the first online Democratic presidential primary ever. The vote is being sponsored by the San Francisco-based liberal activist group MoveOn; an estimated 300,000 of the group’s more than 1.4 million U.S. members are expected to cast online ballots. And by Friday, one clear winner will have emerged: MoveOn […]
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Restoration Era
BURLINGTON, Vt. — On a sun-drenched, 90-degree day in the small, lakeside town of Burlington, a visibly fatigued former governor Howard Dean threw down a marker recasting his candidacy around the theme of restoring American values and community in a nation under attack from special interests, corporations and a president who appeals “to the worst […]
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Mr. Personality
Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) sits about two feet away from me in the back of a sleek, black Dodge Durango SUV, a package of melting peanut-butter chocolate-chip cookies between us. We’re speeding past fields and silos in southwestern Iowa, down a badly paved road to a $25-a-plate bratwurst-and-hamburgers fundraiser for a state senator, where Edwards […]
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Test Run
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Forget the war in Iraq. The key division among Democratic voters as of this past Saturday was between those who are paying attention to the 2004 primary — now in full swing — and those who are not. For the vast majority of voters, the so-called invisible primary remains decidedly invisible. A […]
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The Indentured Generation
Milton Himmelfarb once famously quipped that “Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.” These days Republicans are trying to win the hearts and ballots of both Jewish and Hispanic voters. They may have more luck with the Jews. Republican strategists have been boasting since at least 1999 of a coming political realignment in […]
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Party People
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is the Democratic Party’s indie rock star. He lacks big production values. He’s individualistic. He can be sullen and defensive. Sometimes he even dresses strangely. But when he turns it on, lays into one of his riffs and flashes that heart-melting smile, he drives the girls wild. And he makes […]
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Jews in Play?
Milton Himmelfarb once famously quipped that “Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.” These days Republicans are trying to win the hearts and ballots of both Jewish and Hispanic voters. They may have more luck with the Jews. Republican strategists have been boasting since at least 1999 of a coming political realignment in […]
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The Fakeout
President George W. Bush’s global AIDS-relief proposal seemed like a historic announcement. “[T]o meet a severe and urgent crisis abroad, tonight I propose the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — a work of mercy beyond all current international efforts to help the people of Africa,” Bush said during January’s State of the Union address. “I […]
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Liebermama
On Jan. 13, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) vowed to return to the national campaign trail and seek the presidency. And that can only herald one thing: the return of Marcia “Baba” Lieberman. The 88-year-old mother of Sen. Lieberman may be a little weak in the arthritic knees these days, and she says she’s at the […]
