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41. Powerlines

    Running Like Bushes

    The Hahn campaign is modeled on Karl Rove’s and Lee Atwater’s greatest hits

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: April 7, 2005

    The mayor of Los Angeles has his four-letter political dynasties mixed up. He’s not running like a Hahn — at least, not like his father, the legendary Kenny, elected 10 times...

42. Powerlines

    Is It Good for the Jews?

    The chosen people choose a mayor

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: March 24, 2005

    Jim Hahn may be having trouble finding people to vote for him, but public endorsements, it seems, are less of a problem. Last week, we learned that the Hahn folks published a...

43. Powerlines

    Start Making Sense

    An open letter to Miguel Contreras

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: March 17, 2005

    Mr. Miguel Contreras Executive Secretary-Treasurer The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Dear Miguel (or, in the parlance of labor salutations, Dear Sir and...

44. Powerlines

    Losing Labor’s Power

    What happens to the L.A. labor movement (and local politics) if it splits in two?

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: March 10, 2005

    So you think Miguel Contreras — leader of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, the city’s political powerhouse — is losing sleep over the mayor’s race, or Arnold...

45. Powerlines

    The Mayor Gets Squeezed

    Why Jim Hahn may not survive the primary, and other mayoral dynamics

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: February 17, 2005

    Don’t look now, but it’s even money that our mayor won’t even make it into the May runoff. Jim Hahn’s in trouble, with voters rejecting him for his good deeds, his bad deeds...

46. Powerlines

    Creating California

    Pat Brown knew how to build a great state; Arnold Schwarzenegger knows how to dismantle it

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: February 3, 2005

    One of the odder infatuations of California politics is that of Tom McClintock for Pat Brown. McClintock, the longtime Republican legislator, is an extreme taxophobe even by...

47. Powerlines

    George and the Governator

    So why do Californians despise Bush and embrace Arnold?

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: January 13, 2005

    Lest anyone entertained doubts, now we know just whom our governor considers a special interest. No, it’s not agribusiness, which has contributed generously to Arnold...

48. Powerlines

    The Army You Have . . .

    . . . Under Bush and Rumsfeld couldn’t care less if your humvee is armored with cardboard

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: December 16, 2004

    In January of 1942 — one month after the Pearl Harbor attack plunged America into war — Franklin D. Roosevelt went before Congress to ask for funds for his "Victory...

49. Powerlines

    The Security Party

    Republicans are the party of risk. That should create an opening for Democrats

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: December 2, 2004

    So what went wrong, and what must we do to set it right? By many measures, the Democrats and progressives never had it so together as they did this year. There were more...

50. Powerlines

    Where Did We Go Wrong?

    Democrats add up the votes, and go a little crazy

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: November 11, 2004

    Of all the conversations I’ve had since Election Day, the saddest have been with Democratic get-out-the-vote operatives in Ohio and Florida. The fate of the Kerry candidacy —...

51. Powerlines

    Long Night’s Journey Into HELL

    Base — how low can you go?

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: November 4, 2004

    There have been worse nights, I suppose. Kristallnacht, certainly. The nights of September 11, 2001, and December 7, 1941, were unbearably awful. And just looking at...

52. Powerlines

    The Tsunami

    Can the Democratic ground game elect John Kerry — and create an enduring progressive movement?

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: October 28, 2004

    ORLANDO, Florida — I have seen the present, and it works — I think. I have spent the past week observing the official Democratic Party and unofficial 527 field operations...

53. Powerlines

    Facts and the Fat Man

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: October 7, 2004

    Not since Sydney Greenstreet’s Casper Gutman strode onto the screen in The Maltese Falcon, extolling the virtues of "clear speaking" while speaking himself in deliberately...

54. Powerlines

    Don’t You Know There’s a War On?

    Best Performance by John Kerry

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: September 30, 2004

    Up until Thursday night, when John Kerry and George W. Bush met in debate at Coral Gables, the race for president had settled down, in one particular way, to a contest between...

55. Powerlines

    Kerry Speaks!

    Why this election is far from over

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: September 23, 2004

    NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON, John Kerry has found his voice. Since the earliest days of the Bush presidency, when Bush was airily dismissing the Kyoto Accords and the...

56. Powerlines

    Democratic Doldrums

    How John Kerry has emerged from them before, and how he can do it again

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: September 9, 2004

    Photo by Ted Soqui The president, I suspect, is already descending. The Time and Newsweek polls, taken during (and, in the case of Newsweek, a few hours following) the...

57. Powerlines

    Resoluter Than Kerry

    Why Democrats shouldn’t panic — yet

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: September 2, 2004

    I. THE STATE OF PLAY It’s the halfway point in the Republican convention, and the Democratic nervousness is palpable. It’s not that the Republicans have much of a message,...

58. Powerlines

    Front-Porch Campaign

    In a bellwether city in a battleground state, the Democrats are walking the walk

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: August 19, 2004

    Photo courtesy Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc./Sharon Farmer CANTON, Ohio — When Alice Carrington shuffles onto her front porch to answer Dave Leasure’s question — does she prefer...

59. Powerlines

    Capture the Flag

    John Kerry and the Democrats reclaim patriotism

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: August 5, 2004

    BOSTON — The Democrats had themselves one whale of a Republican convention last week, and not just on the podium. The remarkable thing at the party’s quadrennial...

60. Powerlines

    All Together Now

    The trick is spreading unity into the countryside

    Harold Meyerson

    Published: July 29, 2004

    BOSTON — This is one upbeat convention, but at the point at which I came in, it was getting off to a near-funereal start. The occasion was the AFL-CIO’s Sunday convention-eve...