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...Football is legal. Performing a sexually-provacative half-time show is legal. Public nudity is NOT legal. There should be jail time and/or a substantial fine for such illegal actions. S.H.V. Des Moines, Iowa...
...sorts of instincts and insights go into a voter's calculation about whom to support. But after two years of quality time with the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire, the candidates are in a crowded race of first impressions. Are the qualities that make for a good first impression the ones that make a good President? And where exactly do ideas fit in (not just why you have the best chance of winning the office but what you would do when you get there)? The 2004 race plays out between parties split over war and peace, rich and poor...
...presences in South Carolina, handing out Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people in Charleston and bringing congregations to their feet across the state. But as the black vote becomes less uniform, a boutique black candidate suffers. "A lot of blacks in South Carolina want the same thing as people in Iowa," says David Bositis, a scholar at the Washington Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. "They want somebody who can beat Bush." --Reported by Tim Padgett/Charleston, Perry Bacon Jr. and Karen Tumulty/Washington, Greg Land/Atlanta, Ruth Laney/Baton Rouge, Michael Peltier/Tallahassee and Constance E. Richards/Greenville
Shopping for a President In the post-Iowa shake-up, voters must choose from among Kerry's steadiness, Edwards' sunniness, Clark's uniform and Dean's heat. A little of each is good, but the Dems get only...
Watching John Kerry circumnavigate the English language on the stump, I often think about the sparse clarity of his writing--and wonder why he is so much more compelling on the page than in person. Even now, after his victory in Iowa and surge in New Hampshire, the Senator manages to entangle himself regularly in grandiloquent and impenetrable rhetoric. There is a cardboard pomposity to it that drives his staff, the press corps--and a fair number of regular human beings--nuts. The people of Iowa had months to study Kerry, weed through his oratory, and finally came...