If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve come to expect this. If you’re new, welcome; we do this every Friday afternoon. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days. Note: Zogby Interactive/Wall Street Journal released another one of its surveys, but as I’ve noted before, I […]
I realize that “web videos” are commercials that most Americans will never see. Bush supporters who visit his site may check them out, but they’re already on his side. Dems like me will take a look, but only critique and criticize. That’s about the full extent of the audience. That said, there’s something deeply strange […]
There have been a couple of new stories this week about one of my favorite issues — the reaction to the Bush administration’s new policy toward Cuba among Cuban-Americans in South Florida. This was supposed to be an easy one for the Bush White House. In what appeared, at the time, to be a predictable […]
Back in 1998, several angry liberals starting threatening GOP lawmakers who insisted on pushing the Clinton impeachment ordeal: If you go after Clinton for his affair, we’ll expose your affairs as well. It was hardly a sweeping success. Republicans continued their witch hunt unabated while we learned more than we wanted to know about some […]
Just to briefly update a story from two weeks ago, I wanted to mention that the superintendent of California’s public schools has ordered an investigation into a widely-used anti-drug program with ties to the Church of Scientology. The popular program, called Narconon Drug Prevention and Education, has been used by schools nationwide for the past […]
By now, nearly everyone has heard all about Dick Cheney’s colorful choice of words on the Senate floor this week. But just in case you haven’t: A brief argument between Vice President Cheney and a senior Democratic senator led Cheney to utter a big-time obscenity on the Senate floor this week. On Tuesday, Cheney, serving […]
Remember a few months ago when Nader hosted a rally in Oregon and no one showed up? The purpose of the gathering was to meet the state’s threshold to qualify him for the state presidential ballot. The rally was a debacle and Nader could be heard muttering to himself in the hallway afterward, wondering why […]
Of all the major national dailies, only one — the Chicago Tribune — put the Plame story on the front page. Everyone else stuffed it — the Washington Post (page 2), the NY Times (page 16), the LA Times (page 9), and USA Today (page 7). I guess it’s fairly routine to have a sitting […]
No one wants to fess up to having reserved a congressional room for the bizarre coronation for Sun Myung Moon in March. [T]here is someone left in Washington with a sense of embarrassment over Moon’s antics: The name of the senator who gave permission for Moon to use the Dirksen Building remains a mystery. I’m […]
On Feb. 6, CNN’s Inside Politics had an item about job losses under the Bush administration, which emphasized the fact that this administration had the worst record of any president in 70 years. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao suggested we’re focusing on the wrong numbers. Judy Woodruff: “I want to cite the one economic analyst with […]