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Political experts say Republican office-seekers may suffer if the troop buildup fails. ``There has to be some improvement over the next six to nine months,'' said Lee Edwards, a historian at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington policy-research organization that favors limited government. Nathan Gonzales, an analyst at the Rothenberg Political Report, a non-partisan newsletter in Washington, said Republicans' plans to regain power in Congress and hold onto the presidency could be undermined by a continuing focus on the Iraq conflict. ``If we're still talking about Iraq'' in 2008, Gonzales said, ``Republicans are long shots to keep the White House.'' A troop buildup is a ``tough sell for a president with a 36 percent approval rating and a nervous and skeptical Congress,'' said Charles Gabriel, a political analyst with Prudential Equity Group in Washington. ``There's a lot of impatience among Hill Republicans.''