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Politics : Those Damned Democrat's -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (774)	11/7/2002 3:01:34 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 1604

Here's why I think the Democrats lost: (FROM DICK MORRIS) The closing week of the election featured old Walter Mondale as the poster boy for the Democrats. Having led them to defeat in 1984, he came back for an encore in 2002 with the same result. Not only did the has-been liberal go down to defeat in his home state of Minnesota, but he dragged the party's Senate candidates down with him. Looking like an aging member of Brezhnev's Politburo, he seemed the ghost of liberalism past as he emerged as his party's best-known Senate candidate. His very appearance told one volumes about the Democratic Party's embrace of his tax-and-spend past. The repositioning of the '90s vanished in a nod of his gray head and, like twice-cooked pork in a Chinese restaurant, he led his party to a second defeat. But, in a deeper sense, voters abandoned their traditional desire for split government in their desire to quiet the partisan bickering in Washington. In the aftermath of 9/11, a public-opinion survey asked voters to characterize the changes in their personal attitudes after the attacks. For example, the survey, conducted by Vote.com in November of 2001, probed whether people felt "more suspicious of strangers," "more willing to give to charity," "more fearful of flying" or "more respectful of people in uniform." The most frequently mentioned response of all of these common reactions was that voters felt "less tolerant of partisan bickering in Washington." In the 2002 election, this disgust at political infighting with our nation on the line manifested itself in a desire to give our fighting, young president the power he needs to protect us in a dangerous world. Checks and balances seem, these days, less important than empowerment and action to most voters. nypost.com