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But Is It Good for My Career if My Candidate Tanks?
February 7, 2004 04:25 PM
There are empty seats on the Howard Dean press bus these days, and the reporters covering the former frontrunner feel as though they're on a "ghoul patrol," according to a story by Jim Rutenberg in The New York... Continue reading
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The Muslim Vote
February 7, 2004 04:15 PM
When Michigan voters caucus today, analysts may get their first measure of the strength and political leanings of a new - and potentially influential - bloc of voters: Muslims. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, Muslims "have become politically active... Continue reading
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Out of the Gates on Sunday
February 6, 2004 01:41 PM
So the handicapping has begun. We're not talking about Saturday's vote in Washington and Michigan. (That's so yesterday.) No, we're referring to how the odds'-makers are already assessing President Bush's hour-long interview with Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press"... Continue reading
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AP Digs Up a Good One
February 6, 2004 12:06 PM
John Solomon of the Associated Press has broken out his shovel and hit paydirt. In 2000, as a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, John Kerry convinced committee chairman John McCain to drop legislation that would have required American International... Continue reading
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Slow Pitch in the Majors
February 5, 2004 09:15 PM
That whirring noise you're hearing from Tennessee this evening is emanating from Wesley Clark, who's explaining what he really meant when a would-be voter yesterday asked his views on abortion. "Well, I'm against abortion," Clark told a patron of... Continue reading
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Who Is That Guy Behind Al Sharpton?
February 4, 2004 12:25 PM
While others have been busy reheating the leftover "Bush AWOL" story or rustling through archived articles about John Kerry's voting record, The Village Voice this week delivers a first-rate investigative report on Democratic hopeful Al Sharpton's strange bedfellow, GOP... Continue reading
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Age of Aquarius
February 3, 2004 11:53 AM
We've heard the pundits prognosticate long and officiously about the candidates' strengths and weaknesses. We've watched as the Democratic hopefuls debate, scrutinizing their body language, speaking skills and temperament, attempting to divine leadership qualities and, yes, electability. We've Zogbyed, Pewed... Continue reading
Behind the News

Block That Cliche!
February 2, 2004 09:37 PM
Call us hopeless dreamers here at Campaign Desk, but there are some cliches so hackneyed that, in our fantasies, we never see or hear them again during the 2004 election. "Stepford Wives" nears the top of our list. Today's edition... Continue reading
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George Will Gets It Backward
February 2, 2004 10:34 AM
This one comes courtesy of the Department of Old Myths Die Hard, and was passed on to us by an alert reader. In his Sunday column in The Washington Post (which is syndicated to numerous other papers), George Will <a... Continue reading
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Is Anybody Looking For Any Facts?
January 31, 2004 12:19 PM
It's been 11 days since President Bush in his State of the Union message amended his prior contention that Iraq possessed "weapons of mass destruction" to the softer assertion that Saddam Hussein, pre-invasion, had been working on "weapons of... Continue reading
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Now There Are Two of Them?
January 30, 2004 12:42 PM
We all know by now that President Bush doesn't race right out to the stoop at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue before dawn to snag his copies of The Washington Post and The New York Times. Reading newspapers ranks on the presidential... Continue reading
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Tapping out Joe’s swan song
January 29, 2004 04:41 PM
The "Joe-mentum" is building -- not exactly the voter shift Sen. Joe Lieberman had in mind, but a definite trend that the pulse-takers here at The Campaign Desk love to monitor. Somebody's gotta be the next to go, and increasingly... Continue reading
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No Good Dean-ism Goes Unrepeated
January 26, 2004 09:18 PM
Pop quiz time. Why are politicians different from reporters? (No jokes about the penchant for junk food and odds hours, please). Turns out with one group, plagiarism is rewarded -- or at least the most flagrant practitioners hope so.... Continue reading
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In New Hampshire, Voters Actually Think
January 26, 2004 12:34 PM
As the New York Times' Gail Collins notes this morning, New Hampshire is a state where no drive is too long, no appearance too inconvenient for the hardy souls who are preparing to choose their favorite Democrat. With the... Continue reading
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Diane, Ask A Question Already!
January 23, 2004 05:01 PM
Why did we get up from watching Diane Sawyer's talk feast with Howard and Judy Dean on ABC News' "Primetime" last night and wonder if somebody forgot to serve us the entree? (If we'd wanted just a plate of... Continue reading
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Anybody here named Joe ?
January 22, 2004 05:20 PM
Remember when Joe Lieberman was regarded as a major player in the New Hampshire primary -- like, four days ago? What happened? In the various drumbeating advances for tonight's debate and reports on the shifting sands of the Granite State's... Continue reading
Bio

Susan Q. Stranahan

Susan Q. Stranahan wrote for CJR.

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