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ELECTION RESULT

99% precincts reporting nationwide

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VOTERS SPEAK OUT

Make your voice heard.

"Continue to stand on your principles and follow your heart not the polls."

- C. Holden, Dalton, OH

What mattered to you in this election? Read what people have already told us.

TALKING WITH THE ENEMY

• 9/11 commission brings heat, but also light

• Bush-contempt, Kerry-scorn: Is it 'hate thought'?

• A political odd couple's advice on finding common ground

• At heart of good political discussion: the idea

• Nasty politics? Puhleez! Get a historic grip.

• We need higher quality outrage

• Humanity is not red or blue

• How to break the argument habit

CONTINENTAL DIVIDE

A look at America's polarized electorate

• Inside red-and-blue America
• How Georgia went 'red'
• Suburb shift turns state blue
• Different news for different views
• Even in a swing state, views are hardened

POWER POLITICS III

Could you have won Ohio?

Test your political skills with this campaign simulation game.

ON THE ISSUES
Issues comparison at a glance
Where they stand
Part 1: ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Cheaper vs. cleaner: big differences
Part 2: HEALTHCARE
Rival views of the government's role
Part 3: JOBS/ECONOMY
Divide over managing US's wallet
Part 4: THE SUPREME COURT
How they'll reshape the bench
Part 5: SOCIAL SECURITY
The retirement squeeze: How would they fix it?
Part 6: FOREIGN POLICY
At odds: very different worldviews
Part 7: IMMIGRATION
US borders: sleeper issue for voters
Part 8: SOCIAL ISSUES
Social issues stir passions
Part 9: EDUCATION
Two approaches to school accountability

ELECTION ISSUES QUIZ

Who's your candidate?

Take our interactive quiz to find out which candidate sees things your way on the issues that matter. The results may surprise you.

SWING STATES MAP

The color of victory

Which swing states will Bush and Kerry need to win? Use our interactive map to find out.

MONITOR POLITICAL CARTOONS

Election funnies

Clay Bennett, the Monitor's Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, gives his own entertaining, and often pointed, view of the political world.

DIABLOG

Real-time repartee

Political analysts and Peter Robinson and James Norton exchange wit and wisdom in a real-time format.

RNC IN NEW YORK

Republican National Convention

Featured coverage of the Republican National Convention in New York.

DNC IN BOSTON

Democratic National Convention

Featured coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.

CONVENTIONAL MISTAKES

Gaffes and gems

Dive-bombing doves? The KKK? Calls for culture wars? Read our picks for the top gaffes and highlights from past conventions.

MONITOR BRIEFING

Insights from the campaign trail

Monitor political correspondents Linda Feldmann and Liz Marlantes discuss the key issues defining both campaigns and what it would take for one candidate to emerge.

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Campaign commentary





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