[AFarmer]

All this is good news and the trends do seem to favor a shift from the left and toward the right. Let's not underestimate the Anti-American left and their entrenched political machine.

A more accurate assessment of the political and cultural landscape suggests that we are evenly divided with trends moving right.

Elections are decided not by the lefties or the righties who have made up there minds long before election day. They are decided by about 30% of Americans who don't pay much attention to politics until the last few weeks before election day. These people aren't particularly political to begin with and we will be heavily targeted by the mainstream media and press in ways that will leave no doubt as to the entrenchment of liberal idealogues and there ability to play towards the emotions of last minute voters.

It has been increasingly clear to many Americans that the left in this country can't win the battle of ideas, but then again, they never aquired power based on the substence of thier ideas...they aquired it by manipulating emotions and tapping into the fears of various groups of voters.

We can't depend solely on the powers of our ideas to win elections, even though that is ultimately the war to be won.

I have little doubt that the left will engage in tactics of collusion with the major media outlets to work the middle of the electorate into the most irrational emotional state right before election time to leave us unable to advance logic and reason to aleviate these concerns if we aren't well prepared.

I'm a Constitutional Conservative and owe no allegiance to any party, but the defeat of the left in this country is my primary concern for the future of our Republic.

[KC_Conspirator]

Don't believe that "its a 50/50 country" crap. Thats typical September 10th thinking. The country is leaning slightly right and recent polls also corraborate this. Also, the 2002 election should have been a win for the democrats, yet it was one that was one of the worst defeats in American political history. That middle third of the country realizes that 911 changed everything and we can't screw around anymore. The democrats don't get that and its apparent because they are going to nominate the hateful Howard Dean.

Now, your point about resting on our laurels is right on. The left relies on their political machine to keep themselves in power. Using the wholly DNC-owned media, the unions, and government schools, they can win some elections. And when that does not work, they steal them. And when that does not work, they shop bunko lawsuits to political hacks acting as judges.

[randog]

I'm a Constitutional Conservative and owe no allegiance to any party, but the defeat of the left in this country is my primary concern for the future of our Republic.

Your points are spot on, but I think you've got to give the independents more credit. An independent voter is political enough to vote but, like me, finds something distasteful about both the r's and the d's that keeps him from joining either party. Right now, the d's are by far doing their damnedest to convince the indies that they are the most repulsive party of the two. It's early, but I get the sneaking suspicion that we're going to see a blue bloodbath in late '04.