The ‘Electability’ Contest The ‘Electability’ Contest
"Oh, this is the guy who is supposed to get it," Pam Earle-Benbow said as John Kerry addressed a candidate forum that drew several thousand advocates for low-income families to t...
Feb 5, 2004 / Editorial / John Nichols
Labor Ponders Edwards, Kerry Labor Ponders Edwards, Kerry
On what was, undoubtedly, the most important day so far for his campaign for the presidency, John Edwards arranged to take time away from shaking hands with actual voters in the c...
Feb 4, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols
Bush Slips–Even Further Bush Slips–Even Further
Moments after the polls closed in New Hampshire on January 27, Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie declared that President Bush had won 94 percent of the Republica...
Feb 2, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols
The Media and Howard Dean The Media and Howard Dean
What if we lived in a parallel universe where Howard Dean was actually treated fairly by the media? I don't mean some Deaniac bizarro world where the former Vermont governor's "I...
Feb 1, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols
Bush Slips–Among Republicans Bush Slips–Among Republicans
FOR UPDATED FIGURES FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE'S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY, SEE "BUSH SLIPS-EVEN FURTHER" at: http://www.thenation.com/thebeat The record-high turnout in the New Hampshire Democ...
Jan 30, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols
“Exhibit A Against Media Concentration” “Exhibit A Against Media Concentration”
CBS officials are still refusing to air a MoveOn.org Voter Fund commercial during Sunday's Super Bowl game because that the 30-second advertisement criticizes President Bush's fis...
Jan 29, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols
Angry-About-the-War Candidate Angry-About-the-War Candidate
John Edwards is not running for the Democratic nomination as an anti-war candidate. Even in a campaign that has been defined by nothing so much as a constant process of redefiniti...
Jan 26, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols
Bush helps CBS, CBS helps Bush Bush helps CBS, CBS helps Bush
The annual Super Bowl game draws a huge audience of television viewers – 130 million Americans are expected to view the game February 1 -- and advertisers of all types want to r...
Jan 22, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols
The Iowa Surprise The Iowa Surprise
Everything about Howard Dean's "Iowa Perfect Storm" strategy seemed to go perfectly, right up to the point at which Iowans actually started voting in the first-in-the-nation cauc...
Jan 22, 2004 / Editorial / John Nichols
IOWA: Caucusing for Kerry, Edwards IOWA: Caucusing for Kerry, Edwards
DUBUQUE, Iowa -- "We got beat by the nuns," said Carol Petrick, a disappointed supporter of Howard Dean as it became evident that her candidate was going to get whipped by John Ke...
Jan 20, 2004 / Blog / John Nichols