SUBJECT INDEX Presidential Election U.S. Senate New York State Immigrant Vote Minority/Ethnic Vote Voting Issues Polls and Polling Get Out The Vote Ballot Bloopers Up Close and Personal
SPECIAL REPORTS Uptown 2004 The Catholic Vote The Homeless Vote Columbia e-Day News
VIDEO COVERAGE High School Students Blind Voters Democracy Plaza First Time Voters Homeless Votes Nader Campaign Patients Voter Registration Index
CLASS INDEX Prof. Sig Gissler Prof. LynNell Hancock Prof. Stephen Isaacs Prof. Rhoda Lipton Prof. Laura Muha Prof. Sandy Padwe Prof. Robin Reisig
Nader Urges New Yorkers to Choose Candidate Based on Platform, Not Party By Isabelle Dupuis Ralph Nader returned to the Democratic fiefdom that is New York City today, closing his presidential campaign with fiery speeches at rallies next to the New York Stock Exchange and Cooper Union’s Great Hall.
Kerry Concession Speech Caps Night of Anxious Returns-Watching by New Yorkers John Kerry conceded the presidential election this morning, phoning George Bush to offer his congratulations after holding out overnight for the last votes to be counted in Ohio, Iowa and New Mexico.
Reporter: Ayesha AkramProducer: Armen Terjimanian
Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx include dozens of complex communities, and those complexities were deeply evident during Campaign 2004.
Forgotten in Blue State, Blacks Still Vote Democratic It has been a dictum of presidential politics for decades: African-Americans and urban voters tend to go Democratic every time.
Unenthused Arab Americans Choose Kerry Arab Americans support Sen. John F. Kerry by a two-to-one margin over President George W. Bush, according to a Zogby International poll released one week before Tuesday’s general elections.
Amplifying the Asian Vote: Korean, Chinese and South Asian Groups Rally to the Polls More than 7,000 new Asian-Americans registered to vote this year and made their way to the polls yesterday by any means necessary.
Homeless Votes Count, Too In an election year with massive voter registration mobilizations and turn-out-the-vote drives, advocates for homeless New Yorkers did their part to make the votes of residents of city shelters and others without permanent addresses count in what will likely be another closely contested presidential race.
Turned Away at the Polls, New Yorkers Take Their Cases to (Election) Court She just wanted to get it over with. Fania Washington planned to vote before work, so she headed to her local polling place at about 8 a.m. But after waiting in line for about an hour, the Midtown woman found her name wasn’t on the registration list.
Religious Beliefs Show Voters the Light in Polling Booths Spurred by the issues of gay marriage, abortion and the war in Iraq, religious voters took on an unusually bare-knuckled political role this year in a contest that pitted a born-again Christian against the third Roman Catholic nominated for president.
Roman Catholics split their vote evenly between the parties, ignoring the admonitions of a few priests that a vote for Kerry is a sin against God.
Turning Out New York City’s Newest Voters More than a quarter of a million new immigrants have registered to vote since the 2000 elections, offering new opportunities for the newly inducted citizens and posing new challenges at the polling sites in yesterday's election.
Flushing voters send first-ever Asian American to State Legislature The Flushing businessman turned politician Jimmy Meng made history yesterday, winning the 22nd District Assembly race to become the first Asian American elected to the New York State legislature.
Schumer Routs Senate Foes Nobody had to stay up all night to find out whether Sen. Charles Schumer would hold onto his U.S. Senate seat.
Republicans Consolidate Congressional Control Republicans increased their majority in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, capturing Democratic seats in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, finishing in a strong position to maintain control.
Artist James De La Vega Wages a Write-In Campaign for State SenatePortrait of the Artist as a Young Candidate By Elva Ramirez East Harlem artist and community activist James De La Vega has spent his own money to wage a campaign for state senator, even though he knew that he would not win.
First Asian American in the State Assembly For the first time in New York State’s legislative history, a Chinese American was elected to the State Assembly yesterday.
Redistricting Lifts Serrano to Victory in State Senate Democratic City Councilman Jose Marco Serrano defeated State Senator Olga A. Mendez yesterday in a historic battle for the 28th Senate District, which includes neighborhoods in the South Bronx, East Harlem and Roosevelt Island.
City’s Big Turnout Leads to Many Small Problems Under the strain of a massive voter turnout, New York City’s creaky lever-operated machines broke down sporadically yesterday in all five boroughs.
Copyright: The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, 2004; reproduce only with permission.
