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47 Days, One Question

Are you a C.J. or a Charlie? C.J. CREGG: Everybody’s stupid in an election year, Charlie. CHARLIE YOUNG: No. Everybody gets treated stupid in an election year, C.J. (The above dialog is from the West Wing episode “Galileo,” first aired November 29, 2002. Full script with context here. Or see the top of the comment [...]

Maxed-Out Moms

As I wrote last week on TIME.com, the demographic that pollsters on both sides are watching most closely in this year’s election are older, non-college-educated white women. In this week’s dead-tree edition, we looked more closely at what is going on with this group that, as John Kerry’s former campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill notes, [...]