Category Archives: Politics: US: 2004 Election

This Diogenes Cynic guy says he has 53 Bush Campaign Lies — that's from the 2004 campaign, doesn't count the ones from 2000. (spotted via Talk Left)

Two thoughtful, very very different, sets of thoughts inspired by the recent decision of certain Catholic Bishops to instruct their parishoners how to vote:

• Mirror of Justice, Bishops, Politics, and Excommunication
• TaxProf Blog, Will Catholic Church's Criticism of Kerry Jeopardize Tax Exemption?

Oh boy are we in trouble.

Count Crisis? Elections official warns of glitches that may scramble vote auditing. See also Ed Felton's summary of the key points. I'm pleased to report that UM Law's own Marnie Mahoney is deeply involved in the effort to try to solve the problem with the iVotronic machines. But from the sound of the news stories, local officials are working hard to pretend there's no problem.

Is It Over Yet?

Stuff like this tells you something.

MADISON, Wis. – Faced with a scarcity of letters praising the president, a newspaper in a Republican-leaning district appealed for pro-Bush letters, then backed off the request Tuesday amid complaints of blatant politics.

Last week in an editorial, The Post-Crescent said most of its letters had been coming from one side and asked readers “to help us 'balance' things out.”

“We've been getting more letters critical of President Bush than those that support him,” the editorial said. “We're not sure why, nor do we want to guess. But in today's increasingly polarized political environment, we would prefer our offering to put forward a better sense of balance.”

On Tuesday, the newspaper located in Appleton, Wis., with a daily circulation of just over 56,000 ran a second editorial stepping back from the appeal.

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The newspaper is located in a congressional district that Bush won handily in 2000, beating Gore, 52 percent to 43 percent.

From Talking Points Memo:

There is chatter in Pakistani intelligence circles that the US has let the Pakistanis know that the optimal time for bagging 'high value' al Qaida suspects in the untamed Afghan-Pakistani border lands is the last ten days of July, 2004.

But of course.