Measuring the Mandate Measuring the Mandate
Democrats will claim their electoral mandate by understanding how they won: by fielding activist candidates with a clear antiwar message and by defending civil liberties.
Nov 9, 2006 / John Nichols
Tester Takes Montana; Dems Close In on Majority Tester Takes Montana; Dems Close In on Majority
Democrat Jon Tester has defeated Montana Republican Conrad Burns, winning the 50th Democratic seat in the Senate. The Tester victory by a margin of more than 3,000 votes out of a...
Nov 8, 2006 / John Nichols
The Senate! UPDATED The Senate! UPDATED
With an early morning win in the tightly-contested state of Missouri and results that seemed to show Montana and Virginia tipping toward them, Democrats ended one of the most inte...
Nov 8, 2006 / John Nichols
The Iraq War Election The Iraq War Election
What is a one-word description for an anti-war Democrat? "Winner." Despite all the attempts to spin Tuesday's election results as something else, the single most important messag...
Nov 8, 2006 / John Nichols
The Anti-War Wave The Anti-War Wave
Everyone is talking about whether there will be a Democratic wave tonight. That's an important question, to be sure. But there are other, perhaps more telling, waves to watch for....
Nov 7, 2006 / John Nichols
Voting Reform Begins with Secretaries of State Voting Reform Begins with Secretaries of State
Worried about the integrity of today's election? You should be. The United States has a dysfunctional election system that produces unequal results depending on the state in which...
Nov 7, 2006 / John Nichols
Refusing to Swallow the Spin Refusing to Swallow the Spin
No one is going to suggest that the mainstream media that spent much of the last week of a critical national election campaign focusing on a non-candidate's failed attempt to tell...
Nov 7, 2006 / John Nichols
The ‘Off-Year Primary’ The ‘Off-Year Primary’
As presidential hopefuls from both parties press their advantage on the platform of the 2006 midterm election, the winners are...
Nov 6, 2006 / John Nichols
The Pombo Ugly Last Campaign of Laura Bush The Pombo Ugly Last Campaign of Laura Bush
PLEASANTON, CA. -- Pity Laura Lane Welch Bush. A solid Democrat who placed her ideological values in a blind trust when she married into the Republican royal family, she now has b...
Nov 5, 2006 / John Nichols
A Referendum on Rumsfeld A Referendum on Rumsfeld
George Bush brought it upon himself. He could have seen out the 2006 campaign season without discussing the fact that no one – with the exception of some joker who road out the...
Nov 5, 2006 / John Nichols