Nader’s Flawed Calculus Nader’s Flawed Calculus
Nader backers support Kerry more than Bush, Nation Institute poll shows.
Oct 22, 2004 / Feature / John Nichols
The Race Right Now The Race Right Now
With 12 days left before the election, millions of Americans have already cast their ballots -- records are being set for early voting and absentee ballots in all of the battlegro...
Oct 21, 2004 / John Nichols
Losing it Losing it
In Senate races across the country, Republicans are falling behind.
Oct 21, 2004 / John Nichols
Orwellian Twist on the Campaign Orwellian Twist on the Campaign
"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." -- George Orwell George Orwell shaped...
Oct 18, 2004 / John Nichols
Election Matters Election Matters
As he began his seventh campaign swing this year through the battleground state of Wisconsin on a sunny day in late September, George W. Bush loaded a secret weapon onto hi...
Oct 14, 2004 / John Nichols
The Race Right Now The Race Right Now
On the eve of the final presidential debate of the 2004 campaign, everything has changed -- again. And it could all change once more tonight. But here is where the race stands rig...
Oct 13, 2004 / John Nichols
Cheney’s Lamest Excuse Yet Cheney’s Lamest Excuse Yet
What do you do when the excuses you used to "justify" an unwise and unnecessary war are completely discredited. If you're Vice President Dick Cheney, you make up a new one. Chen...
Oct 11, 2004 / John Nichols
Election Matters Election Matters
In his 1988 song "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards," British troubadour Billy Bragg promised, "The Revolution is just a T-shirt away." It's taken a while, but the 2004 electio...
Oct 7, 2004 / John Nichols
Cheney KO’ed…by GOP Cheney KO’ed…by GOP
To hear Vice President Cheney tell it in Tuesday night's debate, Democrats like John Edwards and John Kerry are the only Americans foolish enough or unpatriotic enough to complain...
Oct 6, 2004 / John Nichols
Ten Questions for Dick Cheney Ten Questions for Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney, who spent most of his administration's first term in a secure undisclosed location, has been campaigning this fall in the Potemkin Villages of Republican reaction. As...
Oct 3, 2004 / John Nichols