January 4: Democrat Ed Case is elected in a Hawaii special Congressional election, replacing Patsy Mink, who had been elected to Congress posthumously in November 2002.
February 5: The head of the pro-Moscow administration of Chechnya, announces the dismissal of their Prime Minister, who is later replaced by Anatoly Popov.
June 3: Republican Randy Neugebauer defeats fellow Republican Mike Conaway in a Texas Congressional special runoff election to succeed Larry Combest, who resigned in November 2002. Both men had advanced to the runoff in a May 2003 primary.
September 9: Indiana lieutenant governor Joe Kernan becomes acting governor when governor Frank O'Bannon suffers a stroke, and is officially sworn in as governor when O'Bannon dies a few days later. Both are Democrats.
Detailed chronologies at Rulers.org (http://rulers.org): January (http://rulers.org/2003-01.html), February (http://rulers.org/2003-02.html), March (http://rulers.org/2003-03.html), April (http://rulers.org/2003-04.html), May (http://rulers.org/2003-05.html), June (http://rulers.org/2003-06.html), July (http://rulers.org/2003-07.html), August (http://rulers.org/2003-08.html), September (http://rulers.org/2003-09.html), October (http://rulers.org/2003-10.html), November (http://rulers.org/2003-11.html), December (http://rulers.org/2003-12.html)
Finberg gave our political journos some data points to work from as they consider this new audience, as well as some guidance to spark their imaginations about where to go next.
Several dozen journalists are converging on Poynter this afternoon for a five-day workshop on coverage of the 2004political campaigns.
So far this morning, I've read two politics pieces I found interesting: a discussion of media bias by Stanford linguist Geoffrey Nunberg and a weblog entry by Jay Rosen on the ways the Internet is changing the way elections happen.
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