14 Tuesday Dec 2004
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The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is first and foremost the property of the people who are conducting it. They turned out in the streets of Kiev by the hundreds of thousands to protest fraudulent election results, and their persistence and numbers opened up enough cracks in the system to pave the way for a new vote on Dec. 26. Let’s not mistake this for anything but what it is: raw courage in support of freedom.
07 Tuesday Dec 2004
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The post-re-election President Bush said he has acquired “political capital,” and he means to “spend” it – on a second-term policy agenda noteworthy for its ambition, including Social Security and tax reform. That’s an interesting little twist on the metaphor of “political capital.” Perhaps it was a slip and Mr. Bush’s intention in using the term was entirely conventional. But maybe not.
30 Tuesday Nov 2004
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In an important but hardly obvious sense, the reelection of George W. Bush may have been the best thing that could possibly have happened in 2004 to improve relations between the United States and Europe.
16 Tuesday Nov 2004
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Ralph Nader was the dog that didn’t bark in the 2004 election. He finished with about a third of a percentage point of the popular vote, down from 2.74 percent in 2000. In 2004, he was simply not a factor.
09 Tuesday Nov 2004
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At the risk of being insufferable, I said George W. Bush would win “just over 50 percent of the popular vote to John Kerry’s 48 percent.” As of late Sunday’s tallies, Mr. Bush actually finished with 51.0 percent of the popular vote and Mr. Kerry with 48.0 percent. I thus underestimated Mr. Bush’s majority victory by a few tenths of a percentage point. Sorry about that.
02 Tuesday Nov 2004
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And the winner is – but perhaps we are getting ahead of ourselves. Analysis first, verdict second – though even this procedure is controversial in this presidential election.
26 Tuesday Oct 2004
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If I were running a presidential campaign, I would rather have a slight lead in the polls than a slight deficit plus a theory about why my opponent’s lead either wasn’t real or didn’t matter. On the basis purely of being on the side of the more likely winner, I would now rather be in the position of the Bush campaign than of the Kerry campaign. But the race is so close that the difference in the probability of either side winning is miniscule.
19 Tuesday Oct 2004
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What, George W. Bush’s record in office hasn’t given John Kerry enough to work with? Instead, the Democrat prefers to run against demons he himself has conjured? The Kerry campaign’s grip on reality, which it seized with tenacity during the first debate, by the close of the third had become tenuous once again.
12 Tuesday Oct 2004
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You could have knocked me over with a feather, but what was George W. Bush’s best moment in the town hall debate on Friday? Why, his answer to the question on taxpayer funding of abortion, that’s what.
05 Tuesday Oct 2004
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Last week, John Kerry figured out that he would like to be president of the United States in 2005. At long last, we have two candidates who are competing for that office. And a pretty close race it is.
Tod Lindberg 