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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (252287)	5/1/2002 3:32:50 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<I don't know about that, but the party out of the White House traditionally does well in off-year elections.>> That is a normal expectation: 1966, 1970, 1978, 1986, and of course 1994. 1998 might qualify, as the Carvilles were guaranteeing punishment of the Republicans for retaining some semblance of integrity under the Clinton dark years-but the election was basically a wash. The off-year rule of thumb usually doesn't apply in wartime. I doubt it will be seen at all in 2002, because the public was treated to the Democats' utter contempt for democracy in the aftermath of the preceding election-and they remember things like that...