By Stephanie Griffith
Some Americans are suspicious that recent steep declines in gasoline prices might be the result of political manipulation, since the savings at the gas pump come just weeks before critical midterm US elections.
By LIZ SIDOTI
The "Fighting Dems" aren’t a collective powerhouse after all.
For months, the Democratic Party has trumpeted the congressional candidacies of several dozen Democratic challengers who served in the military. Six weeks before the midterm elections, only a few have a fighting chance to win.
By MARC HUMBERT
Former President Clinton’s angry response to questions about Osama bin Laden has partisans of every persuasion certain it will energize voters in the elections and affect a possible presidential bid by his wife.
By BOB LEWIS
One of Virginia’s best-known political analysts said he had never personally heard Sen. George Allen use racial epithets, despite saying on television a day earlier that the senator "did use the n-word."
Too often, voters make the serious mistake of assuming that political candidates and elected officials are smart.
Most of them aren’t. In fact, many of them are dumber than fence posts. I’ve covered politicians as a journalist and worked with them as a political operative for more than 40 years now and can count on one hand the number with IQs above that of a two-minute egg.
George W. Bush’s decision to declassify and release selected parts of the National Intelligence Estimate isn’t doing his attempt to sell the Iraq war to a skeptical American public any good. It only points out the many failures of his flawed policies.
By MARTIN SCHRAM
Ever since 9/11, the Bush-Cheney mantra, uttered most frequently in campaign seasons, was that Osama bin Laden was emboldened to attack America due to the failure of President Bill Clinton’s administration to forcefully and fully respond to earlier terror strikes — especially the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
By JOHN J. MONAGHAN
The Providence Journal
Have the disciples of the evil Karl Rove lost their minds?
Has all the hype that identifies today’s political P.R. people as in-charge geniuses loosened the strings of the current crop of spin-doctors?
Maybe it’s blissful ignorance or plain old arrogance.
But come on, guys. Think about it.
By DALE McFEATTERS
The compromise between President Bush and Senate Republicans on detainee treatment has one gaping flaw. It carves out an open-ended exception to the great legal principle of habeas corpus.
A top aide to U.S. Rep. Charles Bass resigned Tuesday after disclosures that he posed as a supporter of the Republican’s opponent in blog messages intended to convince people that the race was not competitive.