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...returned several pieces of mail and wrote deceased across the face of the envelope. I finally sent one back with the message "She's dead. Do you get it?" Still, her mail from the g.o.p. continues to arrive almost weekly. Maybe, since deceased voters have been known to cast ballots, it's in the party's interest to keep sending mail. Jane Koch Montclair, Virginia, U.S. Strategic Miscalculations Saddam denied having WMD all along [Oct. 18]. He did not mislead anyone. We just did not believe him. The media failed to ask probing questions about the alleged WMD that would...
Therefore, I propose that black America put forth a new set of demands for the Democrats to meet in order for black votes to be cast for the next Democratic nominee. First, Democrats must push for a new voting rights amendment that guarantees everyone the right to vote, not just protection from its denial. The Republicans have now mastered black voter suppression like Jordan did his jumpshot. If black votes were counted fairly, Bush would probably be somewhere in Texas reading books upside down—in 2000 and 2004. If Democrats really want black votes, it is imperative that...
...reform their infamous “three strikes” laws was defeated, but the support may be present nationwide to curtail the growth of the prison-industrial complex. Curbing mass incarceration would certainly curry favor with black voters, and it wouldn’t even have to be cast as an explicitly racial issue. The unchecked growth of the penal system should be construed as a fiscal burden and ineffective crime deterrent. What should help Democrats convey this message is that it is actually true—but after watching Kerry get punked about his tour in Vietnam...
...course of the day, poll watchers from both parties could enter precincts and scan the lists of voters to see who had turned out and who had not. Then they called their war rooms so volunteers--the Republicans called them flushers--could call the voters who hadn't yet cast a ballot, give a pep talk, offer a ride. In Franklin County the board of elections handed out more than 800 cell phones to the nonpartisan precinct judges there so they could call the board to report any problems or ask questions. In the end "the good people of central...
...love of country as any pledge, hymn or flag. For people on both sides, there is relief that the day affirmed the sustaining virtue of American democracy. However fierce the battle and however high the stakes, on Election Day citizens go to the polls, close a curtain and cast their vote--and then go home to honor the outcome because we have only one President at a time. --Reported by John F. Dickerson with Bush; Perry Bacon Jr. with Kerry; Matthew Cooper, Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty/ Washington; Eric Roston/ Columbus; Wendy Cole/ Chicago; Mitch Frank and Nathan Thornburgh...