Read the following stories.  In reading these stories, keep item 5 on Assignment One in mind.  You will be asked to post and defend your own prediction of the Bush/Gore race.

1. Reporting on the demonstrations during the Republican Convention in Philadelphia.
2. Paul Berman, "Double Pierce."
3. John Judis, "It's Gore's Race to Lose."
4. Fred Barnes, "The Election is Bush's to Lose, if Opinion Surveys are Any Guide."
5. "Political Prognosticators Agree Gore Will Win the White House in Novemeber."
6. "For Last Dance, Candidates Eye the Wallflower."   [Note:  you will probably have so "subscribe" to the NY Times online to read this.  You will need to do this anyway, as we will be using the Times extensively in this class.  It is free.]
7. [Also from the Times] New Jersey Race for Senate Is About Money, Money and the Lack of Money.