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To: Dale Baker who wrote (12808)	2/20/2006 2:55:58 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541753

As for being more adept at taking the sliver, I don't see razor-thin victories as anything more than shoving your candidate over the pile at the goal-line a smidge better than the other team. If that is what it takes, and one party is more adept at it than the other, then one is more successful. The fact that the Dems have not been able to get this tiny yet horribly important sliver is a sympton of their long term, well-documented political failure in presidential politics. It might also mean that the true centrists see the Dems as not good Presidential material. But to suggest that it means nothing since things are really 50/50, as I take it both you and John argue, is to ignore the reality of things. It is the reason why I have stated that if I were a Dem political honcho, I would drag the Dems to the right to capture that tiny sliver which has often eluded them. Hanson's points were exactly right. No amount of justification or rationalization will put the Dems in power unless they go after that tiny sliver by shifting to the right, eliminating fools like Dean, not glamourizing uneducated Hollywood celebs as political geniuses, putting a muzzle on chest-beating Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, etc. It's not an impossible thing to do, as Clinton brilliantly showed them.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (12808)	2/20/2006 3:01:47 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541753

anyone have an opinion why Bush never groomed a successor to inherit his "political capital"? We will have a 'third Pearl Harbor' in October 2008, GWB will declare martial law and install himself as Dear Leader For Life? With Diebold and ES&S providing the black box voting, it doesn't matter? He already has, but you have to know the code: which Congresscritter has received the most post-SOTU kisses from GWB? Seriously, I don't have the first idea. It is not like the GOP to not have this figured out. Or perhaps they have and are not sharing it.