The danger of special elections and run-offs is that they invite analysts to impute some sort of national significance or trend to their outcomes. Sometimes, like in the string of Republican victories that preceded their 1994 revolution, this kind of analysis is warranted. But in the case of yesterday’s Senate run-off in Georgia, it most Read More
It’s been fashionable to compare Barack Obama’s presidential transition favorably to Bill Clinton’s 16 years ago, which was supposedly a model of chaos and disorganization. This is somewhat unfair to the former president, whose popularity didn’t really take a hit until after he was sworn in. But Clinton did make at least one blunder that Read More
Even if, as most expect, Barack Obama is declared the winner of the presidential race tonight, the campaign may not be over.
In Georgia, Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss is facing a strong challenge from Democrat Jim Martin, a former state legislator. And thanks to the presence of Libertarian candidate Allen Buckley, it’s quite possible that Read More
In the days just after Sept. 11, Jim Martin searched for God in the wreckage and suffering of Ground Zero. For some, and maybe even for many, his was a most unlikely mission. But, he says, it was successful-far more than he would have imagined.
Jim Martin is a 41-year-old writer, magazine editor and Roman Read More
Jack Welch was on one of the political talk shows the other night, answering questions about life and money-making in the post–Sept. 11 era. Mr. Welch delivered his wisdom in the blustery manner befitting a great corporate executive with a best-selling book to promote. His inquisitor paid him all due deference, as one might do Read More
