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E.J. Kessler

By E.J. Kessler

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Looking past Saturday’s presidential caucuses in Michigan, Democratic strategists were predicting this week that the results in the Wolverine State would point the way for the party’s strategy in the general election. What the Michigan campaign showed, pundits said, was that voters in the center — “white, Catholic men who are disproportionately members of labor…

By E.J. Kessler Feb 6, 2004 | 4 min read
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Jews for Joe!: Confounding the fears of many, including the candidate, Jewish voters in the states that voted February 3 did support Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman in greater percentages than did non-Jews. In the end, however, that did not provide much help for Lieberman, who ended his centrist bid for the presidency Tuesday. According to…

By E.J. Kessler Feb 6, 2004 | 5 min read
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Push Calls?: Howard Dean’s campaign is accusing John Kerry’s of stoking anti-Jewish sentiment in what the Dean campaign is describing as “dozens” of so-called “push calls” it claims that Dean supporters received in New Hampshire. The Kerry campaign hotly denied the charge and threw it back at the Dean campaign, accusing it of using “deeply…

By E.J. Kessler Jan 30, 2004 | 3 min read
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With Jewish support for the Democratic presidential candidates shifting after Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the campaigns are stepping up their outreach to the Jewish communities in New Hampshire and across the country. Following his rout at the hands of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who in December purportedly had won over the…

By E.J. Kessler Jan 23, 2004 | 4 min read
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O’Neill Observations: A story about President Bush told by former Treasury secretary Paul O’Neill in a new tell-all book is drawing fire from Jewish Democrats, including Howard Dean’s campaign chairman. Quoting O’Neill on the early days of the Bush administration in the book, “The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the…

By E.J. Kessler Jan 23, 2004 | 4 min read
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JEFFERSON, Iowa — In a machine shed on a farm here, standing in front of a large American flag and a green and yellow tractor, Rep. Richard Gephardt was betting his political career on the idea that family farmers are being hurt by free trade. “Our farmers can compete with anyone in the world, if…

By E.J. Kessler Jan 16, 2004 | 5 min read
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Clark Climb: Capitalizing on his surge in New Hampshire, retired general Wesley Clark is stepping up his push for support in the Jewish community, which some observers have identified as a key source of the more than $10 million in contributions that he posted for the fourth quarter of 2003. According to an e-mail message…

By E.J. Kessler Jan 16, 2004 | 5 min read
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Kerry Question: Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, after jumping down Howard Dean’s throat last fall when Dean suggested that America should pursue an “evenhanded” policy in Middle East negotiations, used a similar phrase himself on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, according to a tape supplied by a rival campaign. Dean later apologized for using the…

By E.J. Kessler Jan 9, 2004 | 5 min read

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