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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (30417)	6/12/2004 8:04:31 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Politics, UK style. Shape of things to come here in the US in November 2004. Hammered, but not defeated The large crumb of comfort Labour can take from its local election drubbing is that the Tories are still not a government in waiting Andrew Rawnsley Sunday June 13, 2004 The Observer When I sought an explanation for Labour's hammering from one of the Prime Minister's strategists, he offered three reasons: 'Iraq, Iraq, Iraq.' The Iraq Factor clearly was a large one in these awful election results for the government. The war disaffected many of the party's activists as well as alienating a slice of its natural supporters. For those who wanted to hurt Tony Blair, here was their first electoral opportunity to administer punishment. Labour MPs who went on the knocker have identified another, less remarked- upon segment of the electorate who are discontented about Iraq for a different reason. These are voters who think the Prime Minister has lost sight of Britain. When they see pictures of him at the G8 summit, they do not see a world leader. What they see is an absentee leader. <font color=green>(My comment: most Americans also feel the same way about Bush. He is concerned with Iraq only, not the US any more) <font color=black>On top of that, Iraq has blotted out anything else the government had to offer. The relatively better recent news, such as the agreement of the UN resolution, came too late in the campaign to have much impact on people's impressions and intentions. contd....http://politics.guardian.co.uk/elections2004/comment/0,14549,1237825,00.html