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Article: The campaign games begin.(the 2004 election campaign begins in 2003)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- December 30, 2002
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Politicians look to the past and analyze the present, but they live in the future. Things are so much nicer there. All is possible in the future. Promises are kept, obligations are met, and politicians are free from debt . . . in the future.
Americans also know when the future is coming. Unlike democracies that have parliaments, the United States has established a pleasing rhythm to its politics. Governments do not fall here, triggering sudden national elections. America does not lurch; it proceeds. And the pattern is set: If the year is divisible by four, the nation elects a president. If the year is not divisible by four, the nation is getting ready to elect a ...