Election Recycling: Descend on Latino Voters Edition
• Bush,cornered at NATO summit, works on reconciliation. "What we are seeing is other nations joining to resist U.S. unilateralism and exacting a higher price. . . Now it's an aggregate pound of flesh. . . I don't think you can turn around three years of U.S. foreign policy with some midnight initiatives," said vice president of the Nixon Center. [ NYT and NYT and WSJ ]
•Pillars ofBushdoctrine knocked by turns of Iraq. "Of the four principles, three have failed, and the fourth --democracy promotion-- is hanging by a sliver," said a director of the Nixon Center. [ WP ]
•Choice boils down to tax cuts versus health care. [ WP ]
•Candidates try to attract "hook and bullet" crowd of 50 million outdoorsmen. [ WP ]
•GOP pushes for exurban vote;Dowd: "The growth potential is much bigger on the Republican side in exurban counties than it is on the Democratic side in urban counties." [LAT ]
• Kerrycancels speech in Boston to avoid crossing picket line. [ NYT and BG ]
• Kerryendorsed by American Federation of Government Employees. [ WP ]
• Bushcampaign site groupsKerry, Moore, Gore, Dean, Gephardt, Hitler.[ WT ]
•Parties descend on Latino voters in Florida. [ LAT ]
• Kerrylacks effective message, say critics.Zogby: "Nothing of interest is breaking through on his part. Nuance is not going to win it this year. His base is way out ahead of him, and he is going to have to give his base something." [WT ]
•Shadow organizations filled with party insiders. [ USAT ]
• Nadersays Greens lose influence by not endorsing him. [ WP ]
•The Green Party, with 250 elected officials and 400 candidates, shows signs of success; one hottie Green mayor was invited to be the next "Bachelor." [ WP ]
• Timothy Goeglein, Rove's"legman on the right," the White House liaison to the right. [ NYT ][ Brian Snyder/Reuters ]