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...debate tomorrow brings with it the opportunity for either side to fundamentally change the tone of the national election??since the dawn of television the presidential debates have provided a final chance to pull a campaign out of the grave, or simply dig the hole a bit deeper. Though the campaign officially ends on November 2, the Harvard Republican Club fully expects President George W. Bush to devoid the opposition of credibility and secure four more years as Commander in Chief this Thursday night...
...fund-raiser—the last one that Kerry will attend before the election??required a minimum donation of $1,000 to attend the pre-dinner cocktail reception and $5,000 to attend the entire program...
...sorts of changes we are seeing are not just examples of the “move to the center” that government texts so assuredly predict in two party presidential systems like our own. The contradiction in this presidential election??Democrats favoring “muscular internationalism” Republicans preaching “Compassion”—reflects not merely the usual slide to the center, but a profound confusion in our country as a whole. Americans are stuck in a Blue State-Red State rut and profess a deep division over just about...
...most impervious viewer is guaranteed to shake his or her head at least a few times. In New York, head shakes were audible gasps—first, in the movie’s earliest minutes, for the numerous black House representatives who stood up to protest the 2000 election??s results in Congress but were not allowed to lodge their objections because they lacked the support of a single senator. This disquieting spectacle is something the cable news networks seemed to miss. And Moore’s footage of the astonishing minutes after the attack on the World...
Even if Bush weren’t as formidable an opponent, Kerry still has to deal with the last election??s spoiler, Ralph Nader. Though Nader has promised to leave the race if it looks like he might swing it for Bush (and polling data indicates that he very well might), his mere entry into the campaign threatens to split the liberal vote. If he really wants to form a united front against the president, Nader should rally behind the one man who has a chance at beating Bush—John Kerry...