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


To: JDN who wrote (302796)10/1/2002 11:53:13 AM
From: CYBERKEN  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Many modern incumbent presidents steer clear of spending their political capital on what generally amount to local races for federal office. The Bush team has made a tremendous effort in communication, fund-raising, and strategy. The results can be seen in the "secondary" poll questions. For instance only a minority say the Bush administration "is to blame for the economy", a result which indicates that the massive propaganda campaign by the Marxist/Leninist's Carville/Begala/Greenberg has failed.

The Democrats may not stop and re-consider before they go charging into court in NJ to get Torricelli's name off the ballot. The effect, nationwide, will be to make undecideds say "There they go again, just like the mess they created in Florida."

It only takes a shift of 2-3 hundred thousand "undecided" voters to leverage the margins in Congressional races, nationwide. The Dems, in their panic, may not see the elephant here, but they have painted themselves as unpatriotic, obstructive to any efforts to solve economic problems, and obstructive to many individual issues like homeland security, and even senior drugs. The Republican team they are fighting can bring home these concepts at least as well as the Carville/Begala/Greenberg Big Lie Squad can cloud them. (BTW: "Corporate fraud", as I expected, has NO effect in these compartmentalized local races-though it might have had some SMALL effect in a presidential year. The vision of Congressmen decrying ANY private-sector fraud is, to most voters, patently absurd.) I could easily predict a bigger Republican victory, but I am sticking with:

HOUSE: Republicans +12 to 18

SENATE: Republicans +5