How is it, I wonder, that simply because some political hack manages to capture his party\’s nomination, millions of people will suddenly regard him with the awe usually reserved for those who can raise the dead?
Ralph Fertig, a retired judge and current community activist and novelist, has what a lot of progressive Californians are looking for: a solution to voting on Nov. 7.
After a gay-rights vote, Reform and Orthodoxy glare at each other across an abyss of mutual incomprehension
The all-but-certain nominees are now turning their sights on each other. The campaign for the general election will be bloody, but hardly inspiring; all indications suggest it will be another low-turnout, high-spending exercise.
Favorite sons George W. Bush and Al Gore scored their knockout victories Tuesday.
It\’s no secret that Jewish voters are turned off to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Now we know how turned off they are.
Joerg Haider\’s unexpected resignation as head of Austria\’s far-right Freedom Party is widely seen as a strategic ploy that may ultimately win him more political power — including the nation\’s leadership.
Voters frequently complain about being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils when it comes to candidates for public office.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has placed his latest bet in the strange and frustrating poker game between Israel and Syria.
Anyone with a computer can now access a tremendous amount of information, opinion, and soft propaganda for and about almost any candidate running for national or state office. Moving beyond newspaper Web archives, people can research candidates by examining several nonpartisan and individual candidate sites.
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