The Fight for the Senate The Fight for the Senate
The man behind the "Jeffords Jump" is aiding Democratic efforts to stay on top.
Oct 24, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Rewarding Dissent Rewarding Dissent
Democrat Paul Wellstone, the only vulnerable incumbent senator to vote against blank-check authorization to use force against Iraq, is locked in one of the year's closest Senat...
Oct 24, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Money Flows Into Anti-Wellstone Campaign Money Flows Into Anti-Wellstone Campaign
US Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minnesota, is the Democrat the Bush administration loves to hate. White House political director Karl Rove personally selected Wellstone's Republican cha...
Oct 24, 2002 / John Nichols
Five Ways To Help Win The House Five Ways To Help Win The House
Strategic lessons for a Democratic Party that is having trouble finding its way.
Oct 17, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Many Dems Reject War Resolution Many Dems Reject War Resolution
A majority of House Democrats on Thursday rejected President Bush's request for blank-check authority to wage war with Iraq, despite the fact that House Minority Leader Richard Ge...
Oct 11, 2002 / John Nichols
Could Turnout Turn Jeb Out? Could Turnout Turn Jeb Out?
Opponents of the Florida governor are organizing voters still angry about 2000.
Oct 10, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Gaining Governors Gaining Governors
While the Bush Administration's beating of the war drums has drowned out domestic policy debates that should be shaping competition for control of Congress, bread-and-butter is...
Oct 10, 2002 / Feature / John Nichols
Byrd Chastises White House, Democrats Byrd Chastises White House, Democrats
Even though he is unlikely to succeed in preventing a Congressional grant of blank-check warmaking powers to the Bush administration, Senator Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, has don...
Oct 7, 2002 / John Nichols
After Torricelli After Torricelli
Democrats in Washington and New Jersey sighed with relief when scandal-plagued Senator Robert Torricelli ended a doomed run for a second term.
Oct 3, 2002 / John Nichols
Blair’s British Problem Blair’s British Problem
When British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented his "dossier" on the threats that are supposedly posed to the world by Iraq, President Bush was delighted with what he heard from ...
Sep 30, 2002 / John Nichols