Maybe. But they lost credibility on all sides when Condi was originally sidestepping out of testifying - and the applause when she tried to worm out of questions and the panel pulled her up on it won't have helped that perception...
Maybe, but the tobacco-chewing gun-totin' southern rednecks (a huge proportion of the American voters) just don't care. Somehow I just know that Bush will win in November. It seems horribly inevitable - if the Democrats had gone for someone charismatic and leftish like Wesley Clarke, I might have had some hope. (Incidentally, this is why I am a very strong pro-European. In a world with such American dominance we need a civilised alternative superpower. I want a federal European superstate!
Not sure I agree about Clarke. He put his foot in his mouth too many times - it made it too easy for the Republicans to knock him down. I would have liked Dean, but I gather he was too far left to stand a real chance, too... :(
As for Bush's support... the people you're thinking of are almost certainly hardcore "my party, right or wrong" Republicans. They're never going to vote Democrat anyway - it's the rest of GWB's support that needs to be eroded. That core will always vote for him - if they vote at all - and the fact that Democrat presidents get elected is proof that there aren't that many of them.
The real worry, for me, was Nader drawing off Democrat voters towards a doomed third-party bid. And that seems increasingly unlikely now...
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Date: 2004-04-08 04:25 pm (UTC)As for Bush's support... the people you're thinking of are almost certainly hardcore "my party, right or wrong" Republicans. They're never going to vote Democrat anyway - it's the rest of GWB's support that needs to be eroded. That core will always vote for him - if they vote at all - and the fact that Democrat presidents get elected is proof that there aren't that many of them.
The real worry, for me, was Nader drawing off Democrat voters towards a doomed third-party bid. And that seems increasingly unlikely now...