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Regular people, just plain working folks
Always stood out in my eyes.
I scorn all those people who drink wine instead
Of eating Frito pies.

The war on the other side of the world was launched with high expectations but is now widely seen as a fiasco.

Why did the pundits declare the Reverend's rousing DNC address to be "off-message"?

The paranoia that young Kerry warned against is now a staple of the Bush re-election campaign, and Kerry must meet it head-on.

Little Richard and the Dems

Why we're all TV critics now.

Electronic counts, unaudited touch-screen ballots, enhance opportunities for fraud.

Inside the GOP's Boston war room.

Last month, I reluctantly joined the Anybody But Bush camp. It was "Bush in a Box" that finally got me, a gag gift my brother gave my father on his sixty-sixth birthday.

Can someone win the presidency entirely on the basis of a negative asset?