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...emotional route of Kerry's day passed Bush's somewhere halfway, traveling from wild hope to stunned despair. After one last dawn campaign visit, a triple-witching photo op on the Iowa-Wisconsin-Minnesota border, Kerry flew back to Boston for his ritual Election Day lunch at the Union Oyster House. Superstitious, he wore his lucky Red Sox cap, carried an Ohio buckeye in one pocket and a clover in the other and refused to let his speechwriters work on election-night speeches of any flavor. But he wasn't relying entirely on voodoo. He spent the afternoon doing satellite...
...Democrats lent her cell phone to her Republican counterpart. In Merrimack, N.H., volunteers from MoveOn.org passed out hot cocoa to activists holding signs outside the polling place--Republicans and Democrats alike. "We might be a battleground state," said voter-protection volunteer Chris L'Estrange in Des Moines, Iowa, "but there's not much of a battle." Florida state troopers suspended safety checkpoints for the day to avoid any accusations of trying to suppress turnout...
...paper. But after Kerry's defeat, Democrats may want to steer clear of nominating another Senator, even a former one like Edwards. After all, no member of Congress has won the White House since 1960. Governors have fared much better. For that reason, expect New Mexico's Bill Richardson, Iowa's Tom Vilsack and Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell to hit the party speaking circuit to gauge support. Other possibilities include Governors Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. With the exception of Rendell, all these potential candidates come with a built-in regional advantage: they...
Voters under 30: Kerry 61% Bush 39% IOWA With a lead of about 15,000 votes, Bush was on the verge of becoming the first Republican to carry Iowa since Ronald Reagan in 1984, but broken voting machines in two counties and uncounted provisional and absentee ballots delayed the official results Voters who see economy as good: Kerry 30% Bush 69% Small-city and rural voters: Kerry 46% Bush...
When asked to comment on what John F. Kerry could have done differently in his race for president, Dean refused to explicitly criticize the Kerry campaign, saying that every campaign makes mistakes. In reference to his infamous outburst after the Iowa Caucuses, Dean jokingly said it was impossible to find one “yahoo” moment to explain why the campaign failed...