As pressies begin their post-election hair shirt thing, remember that many in the trade had a good campaign. The Electoral College has a substantial effect on the outcome of our presidential elections. The worst outcome would be Bush and a Republican Congress, or Gore and a Democratic Congress. Americans are giving editorial endorsements the scrutiny they'd give the political views of any random worm. The Vice President is running on a platform of economic populism during good times.
Voters think of issues in a broader way than do Washington insiders.
They use issues to judge character. More from National Journal. The presidential race is close and entertaining. I n 1945, the talent in Major League Baseball was so depleted by the war that one Chicago sportswriter, surveying the respective rosters of the teams in the World Series, quipped that neither was good enough to win. There's no war on now, but listening to Al Gore and George W. Bush for the past nine months makes you wonder whether the political talent in this country is diluted as well.