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It looks bad for the (D)'s in 04. people are really pleased with Bush. He just got an Iraq victory today. people like and trust him. He has brought back dignity and respect back to the Oval Office.

I think the major problem is that democrats don't have a foreign policy or domestic policy. To win in times of danger or down-turning economy the challenging party must have a plan to fix the economy and make the nation safe.

The huge problem for the democrats is they are deeply divided on how to fix the economyu and make the nation safe.

On Saddam on one hand you had Bonier in Baghdad cheering "Appease him again .. appease him again harder. " That appeals to about 50 percent of the Democrats. The other half want to nuke Saddam before dawn. The problem for Democrats on foreign policy is a plan that pleases half the Democrats would have sent the other half for a walk on election day. So Democrats first opposed the Iraq resolution to please the appeasers, then folded to the Bush Position to please the hawks. The democrats tried ot be HawkDoves... It is hard to do.

It was the same on the economy. The old JFK wing of the party was for a JFK style tax cut and economic stimulus. That portion thinks that giving tax cuts to the people and companies that hire people, would give them enough money to hire people. The other half thinks that if you tax companies and the Rich at a higher rate the rich will respond by puting more people on the payroll.

Democrats can implement the Bush tax cuts and with republican help enact it. They can support it if it is a Democrat plan put forht by a democrat president. But aDemocrat leader does not dare endorse a Repulican plan because half his party is opposed and half are for it. So they did the same thing on domestic policy. First they oppose then they fold. They are in favor of increasing taxes while raising tem.

The dilemma for the Democratic party is real. They are deeply divided. The candidates dare not take a position.

To please their all their base Democratic Candidates must be both for and against nearly everything on the national agenda.

The only thing left is to propose nothing and attack Republicans. We just saw how well that works.

The only thing left is for one half of the party to convince the other half of the party, to their view. That effort could be called Mission Impossible.

Arkansas- Hate to say it, but Hutchinson asked for it with that divorce. He would have won if not for that. It's the only (R) senate seat loss.But (R)'s have another chance in 04 with Lincoln up for re-election.

He should have lost that race. The staffer he married after divorcing his wife is a real cow. You should have seen her when he made his concession speach. Hutchinson actually has worse taste in women than Clinton.