What would a real stock market meltdown do to the economy and, not incidentally, to the presidential campaign? The market has long been poised for a correction. Internet stock expectations were outlandish. Even the broader market has been experiencing inflated ratios of stock prices to company earnings not seen since 1929. All it took for […]
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You can’t have it both ways, Al…
The London Observer Al Gore is finally on a roll. But where will it take him? This past week he’s been telling Americans ‘we’ve got to put you first’ and not ‘the ones with connections, the ones with wealth, the ones with power above and beyond what the average family has in this country’. He’s […]
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Lessons for Next Time
A fter trailing for almost all of the last six weeks before the election, Al Gore wound up the victor in the popular vote on November 7, nosing out George W. Bush 48.6 percent to 48.3 percent. Where did all these Gore voters come from? First and foremost, they came from the Democratic base. According […]
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Clean Elections, How To
Public frustration with political influence peddling hasn’t been this high since Watergate, and thanks to Maine we finally have an example of how to do reform right.
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Drift or Mandate?: The 1996 Elections
The voters’ decision in November will determine whether the late 1990s usher in America’s “fourth Republic.”
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I’ll Be the Judge:
As the trial opens today in a case in which plaintiffs charge Republican voting officials with illegally permitting GOP operatives to tamper with absentee voter applications in Seminole County, many observers are calling the case a dark horse that may crush George W. Bush’s momentum. Presiding over the case is Judge Nikki Ann Clark, a […]
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Florida Dispatch:
November 8: Gleeful Goreites and Bummed Bushies November 10: Sunbathing and Complaining November 13: Fifteen Minutes of Di-dom November 14: Guarding the Ballots November 16: The Press Horde Has My Number November 17: And Visions of eBay Danced in Their Heads November 21: Dimples Outvoted November 26: G.O.P. Stalling […]
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Beyond The Spin, Deep Differences
After one of the emptiest political conventions on record, the stage is actually set for a very consequential November election. Though the Republicans did their best to camouflage it,theirs remains a highly conservative program. There really are enormous differences of substance between the two major candidates. If the election can be made to turn on […]
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Take the Initiative, Please: Referendum Madness in California
Ballot initiatives were supposed to make government more responsive to the people. In California, a series of referenda has had just the opposite effect.
