Christopher Lisotta | November 29th, 2004

(Don't miss Christopher on Conversations, Friday at 5:00PM EST)

To describe the election results of November 2 as a setback for LGBT rights is an understatement. For months supporters of marriage equality, sympathetic media outlets and many Democratic operatives convinced themselves that Iraq and the economy would trump social concerns. With exit polls showing that 22 percent of voters held "moral values" to be most important, it's no wonder the eleven states from Utah to Georgia that faced anti-gay marriage amendments saw them enacted by overwhelming margins. An 86-14 split for the amendment in Mississippi isn't ...   more »

November 16, 2004 | Bob Fritakis

(Bob will be with us Wednesday November 17th, 2004 at 5:00PM EST / 4:00PM CST / 11:00PM GMT for the full hour to discuss voting irregularities, what can be done in this election cycle and in the future.)

One telling piece of evidence was entered into the record at the Saturday, November 13 public hearing on election irregularities and voter suppression held by nonpartisan voter rights organizations. Cliff Arnebeck, a Common Cause attorney, introduced into the record the Franklin County Board of Elections spreadsheet detailing the allocation of e-voting computer machines for the 2004 election. The Board of Elections’ own document records that, while voters waited in lines ranging from 2-7 hours at polling places, 68 electronic voting machines remained in storage and were never used on Election Day ...   more »

Bill Hillsman

(November 16th @ 5:00PM EST: Bill will be with us to discuss his book, Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Election at a Time" and how his ideas apply to the recent national election and the future of Democratic, democratic, progressive, and liberal politics. GS)

Well, they can't blame Ralph Nader this time.

On Tuesday the Democratic Party miserably failed its truest believers for the third consecutive election. It's the second consecutive Presidential election where the party had a gift-wrapped opportunity to defeat an inferior Republican candidate ... and couldn't do it.

Let's put the ...   more »