Top Stories in 2004

Last week after WPTF-AM morning show host Kevin Miller participated in a discussion of 2004’s top stories on NBC 17’s “At Issue,” he invited co-host Donna Martinez to do the same on his radio program. One topic the two reviewed was the effect of weblogs on policy debate and the presidential election. Martinez used the opportunity to promote JLF’s “Locker Room” blog, while the death of Ronald Reagan spurred a discussion of the late president’s impact on a new generation of conservatives. Meanwhile, the 2004 election results were the focus of a column by JLF Senior Fellow Marc Rotterman, published in the Bladen Journal, The Pilot of Southern Pines, and the News Leader of Princeton. “By any reasonable standard the Republican Party can claim that it has a mandate to govern,” Rotterman wrote. “The size and scope of the presidential victory as well as the increased majorities in the U.S. House and Senate validate that assertion.”