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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (1150)	12/27/2003 3:00:23 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

The blue area demonstrated on USA Today Election 2000 results map. Crosses the entire breadth of country(other than urban areas). Those are majority of voters & they support Pres Bush's actions in Iraq. I have to say, I don't think this is true. But we don't know until 04, and then it will be too late. The people out here thought Bush was a moderate when he won in 2000. They thought he was going to lead from the middle, or be at worst something like his father. Instead Bush became a hard right, socially conservative neocon. The states that went with him THEN won't go with him now, imho. Michigan was supposed to be a swing state, imho Michigan will be a landslide anti-Bush vote in 04. Ohio, a wild card but my guess is they don't go Bush. These are the free trade blue states you mention, so we probably agree on those. Bush's trashing of the environment has New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona all pissed off- Las Vegas's #1 issue is environmentalism due to the Los Alamos history, no way they vote Bush now. A tough call on all counts. The trade situation will not improve in 04, probably it will get worse imho. When the afl-cio goes on Capital Report and debates a free trade sponsor I find myself feeling very sympathetic with the unions. The unions are very angry about a proposal to cut overtime, that seems to be their #1 issue. I think the objections to Iraq out here mostly stem from lack of planning and lack of care wrt this weapons issue. When the president accuses someone of having weapons and goes against the whole world to prove his point, people want there to be weapons there. I think everyone supports the military in its entirety but Bush is mighty stingy with the raises for those guys.