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

To: jlallen who wrote (327435)	12/10/2002 11:20:39 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

OK, First it is. Now, if only the caucus will see it our way.......

To: jlallen who wrote (327435)	12/10/2002 12:41:27 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

Frist and Gore have been working for parties By Richard Powelson, Nov 3 2002 knoxnews.com The election Tuesday could have a big effect on the future of two prominent Tennessee political figures who are not on the ballot. U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is not up for re-election this year but is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. That group has been collecting and spending millions of dollars to help re-elect Republicans to the Senate and to add to their number. Democrats now control the Senate by a single vote. Former Democratic Vice President Al Gore, with his Carthage and Nashville roots, is not running for anything this year. But he will watch the election returns closely for an indication that voters are turning away from Republican candidates who touted key proposals of the Bush administration. Gore has been making speeches around the country, campaigning for various candidates and looking for a sign of whether he should try to challenge President Bush in 2004. Although Gore has not been getting into national news coverage often, he has been working to help Democrats around the country. If many of the candidates he is helping end up winning Tuesday, that would reflect well on him. If Frist's work results in Republicans taking over the Senate from the Democrats, he could be hailed a hero by party leaders and rewarded with some leadership position in the party's Senate organization or perhaps a committee chairmanship. He said last week he is not planning on seeking a leadership position, but it's early and he could change his mind after the election returns come in. If the election doesn't change party balances in Congress much, there will be a lot of head scratching to figure out what that means. Democrats are hoping to grab House control from the GOP. Gore, of course, won more popular votes than Bush in the 2000 presidential contest and would be president now if that office were decided like other federal, state and local offices. But the electoral vote system, based on a state's number of members of Congress, determines the presidency, and Bush won that. Frist is likely to win party kudos, even if the GOP numbers in the Senate remain about the same and they don't win control. Over history, the party of the sitting president usually loses seats in the House and Senate in the election halfway between presidential elections that occur every four years. Last week, Frist won praise from the White House's political affairs director, Ken Mellman, for getting many strong Republicans to run for open Senate seats. Gore, though not often getting national credit for it, has been campaigning for federal and gubernatorial candidates in many states, including Iowa, New York, Massachusetts, California, Florida, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland, New Jersey and Rhode Island, his aide said. He also endorsed his long-time friend Lincoln Davis, a state senator, for the 4th U.S. House district in Tennessee. We will have to wait a few days to see how Frist and Gore explain what they want us to interpret from the election results. Then we can form our own view. knoxnews.com * * *