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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (158965)	7/8/2001 9:03:21 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I don't know if they have yet, but when Condit and Smith spoke, she told him she was going to be interviewed at some point.

To: jlallen who wrote (158965)	7/8/2001 9:24:35 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This is a weird morning. Eleanor Clift is making sense. “Democrats are screaming for new blood and unified leadership,” says a Democratic Party operative. While Gephardt gets high marks for his dedication to the House, he has his eye on the 2004 presidential race. If control of the House were within grasp, would he seriously contemplate another run for the presidency? And David Bonior, Gephardt’s heir apparent, has set his sights on next year’s Michigan governor’s race. Tired of being Gephardt’s perpetual No. 2, Bonior’s expected exit is a signal to Democrats that their hopes of regaining the majority any time soon are probably futile. Democrats are still in shock over their dismal showing in the 2000 congressional races. After setting fund-raising records and recruiting unusually high-caliber candidates, they took back only one seat. Explaining what went wrong to the party’s big contributors, and convincing them to bet again on the Democrats, is proving difficult. Next year’s election will be the fourth successive try to regain the majority, and optimism is in short supply. Tauscher likens it to “deal fatigue,” a Wall Street term used when a project you were excited about no longer gets your juices going. Democrats had everything going for them in 2000, and they couldn’t get over the finish line. “There’s a sense that the opportunity has been lost not just for the moment but for the near term as well,” says the Democratic Party official. Redistricting makes the task even harder. In addition to the real loss of seats because of shifting populations, the continuing uncertainty over where the new lines will be drawn leaves incumbents in limbo and stalls the recruiting process for candidates. msnbc.com