Well of *course* it will make it worse. That's why people like myself - who's voted Republican for almost 30 years - are so upset. It's not enough to be blindly loyal to a man or party. There *is* such a thing as principle.
I don't want to see Kerry win the election, but if the alternative is to tell everyone that I think outsourcing is great; the middle class has never done better; the federal government should run the public school systems, etc. I'd be lying through my teeth.
The Republicans are selling the middle class down the river, just more slowly than the Democrats. The only way Bush is going to win is if we have another direct terrorist attack, or if enough disgusted Republicans like me go out and collect signatures to get Ralph Nader on the ballot in all 50 states, thus siphoning off some Democrat votes.