Ten Talking Points on New Hampshire Ten Talking Points on New Hampshire
1. Performance doesn't matter. Of all the candidates, Senator John Edwards delivered the best stump speech, in which he decried the existence of "tw...
Jan 28, 2004 / David Corn
A No-Issues Contest A No-Issues Contest
"We're in a war of ideas!" So declared Bill Barry, chairman of the Nashua, New Hampshire, Democrats, when he enthusiastically introduced Senator John Edward...
Jan 26, 2004 / David Corn
The Populists of New Hampshire The Populists of New Hampshire
There is the Angry Populist, the Calm Populist, the Polite Populist, the Executive Populist, and the Radical Populist. That's who racing across New Hampshir...
Jan 24, 2004 / David Corn
A Dud of a Debate A Dud of a Debate
The New Hampshire Democratic presidential debate was supposed to be the Super Bowl of the primary season face-offs. It was--only in that it was long...
Jan 23, 2004 / David Corn
Bush’s Defiant State of the Union Bush’s Defiant State of the Union
"No one can now doubt the word of America." That's what George W. Bush told the United States and the world public in his State of the Union address...
Jan 21, 2004 / David Corn
IOWA: Ten Talking Points IOWA: Ten Talking Points
1. It's not the movement, it's the man. Voters vote for a person, not the forces he or she unleashes. Howard Dean did birth a movement of sorts. It...
Jan 20, 2004 / David Corn
Powell Retreats on Iraq-al Qaeda Link Powell Retreats on Iraq-al Qaeda Link
What's wrong with the Democrats in Washington? Why has presidential candidate Howard Dean, who was an establishment sort of Democrat as governor of Vermont,...
Jan 16, 2004 / David Corn
Not-So-Special Counsel Not-So-Special Counsel
When is a special counsel not a special counsel? When the Ashcroft Justice Department appoints one to investigate the White House.
Jan 15, 2004 / David Corn
Bush’s WMD Case Weakens Further Bush’s WMD Case Weakens Further
When will George W. Bush say, "We were wrong on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction"? The evidence--or lack of evidence--continues to mount suggestin...
Jan 8, 2004 / David Corn
Never Apologize, Never Explain Never Apologize, Never Explain
Never apologize. Never explain. Never concede. Many politicians--and many Homo sapiens--live and die by these words. But the Bush clan has emblazoned them o...
Dec 24, 2003 / David Corn