A possible Kerry cabinet, The Washington Post reports.
This is known as measuring the draperies in the Oval before victory.
Good news for the Bush campaign, as a recent poll shows Bush getting double his 2000 support from African Americans. Democrats are apparently concerned, as Al Gore made a ton of appearances at churches yesterday in Jacksonville; Bill Clinton had a massive conference call with African American ministers as well. The poll had a small sample, so who knows if it's reliable, but the Democratic response means something.
Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times has been writing glowing profiles of Karen Hughes, Bush's communications adviser, for years now. Here's another.
If the Republicans are to hold on to their advantage in the U.S. House, they need to retain three seats in Pennsylvania. A profile of the races, here.
The Republican Party in Ohio has hired people for $100 bucks each to challenge the eligibility of voters in inner city areas of Ohio, reports The New York Times.
Republican officials said they had no intention of disrupting voting but were concerned about the possibility of fraud involving thousands of newly registered Democrats.
'The organized left's efforts to, quote unquote, register voters - I call them ringers - have created these problems,' said James P. Trakas, a Republican co-chairman in Cuyahoga County.
Both parties have waged huge campaigns in the battleground states to register millions of new voters, and the developments in Ohio provided an early glimpse of how those efforts may play out on Election Day.
Ohio election officials said that by state law, the parties' challengers would have to show "reasonable" justification for doubting the qualifications of a voter before asking a poll worker to question that person. And, the officials said, challenges could be made on four main grounds: whether the voter is a citizen, is at least 18, is a resident of the county and has lived in Ohio for the previous 30 days.
Elections officials in Ohio said they hoped the criteria would minimize the potential for disruption. But Democrats worry that the challenges will inevitably delay the process and frustrate the voters."
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