Cracks in the Bushista Facade
All anyone has to do is take a clear-eyed look & ask the basic questions...you're not any safer, your job's being sent overseas & Paris Hilton got a few tax cuts. Oh yeah & your granny can't get her medicine.
I want the Dems to take Congress so we can have all kinds of exciting investigations into Bushista high crimes, treason & general sleeze... Oh think of the fun we'll have!!!...

Travis Johnson is just the type of voter the Democratic Party hopes to win back in its effort to gain control of Congress in the November election.

Baking in the sun at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the 23-year-old Danville, Illinois, resident wears a black T-shirt sporting NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson's face. The fan looks like the epitome of the young, white, socially conservative, working-class voters who have been key backers of Republicans in the last decade.

But with U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq, war raging in the Middle East and gasoline prices soaring, he is not sure how he will vote...http://tinyurl.com/gsw8f

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CLINTONVILLE, Ohio, Aug. 17 -- Married women with children, the "security moms" whose concerns about terrorism made them an essential part of Republican victories in 2002 and 2004, are taking flight from GOP politicians this year in ways that appear likely to provide a major boost for Democrats in the midterm elections, according to polls and interviews.

This critical group of swing voters -- who are an especially significant factor in many of the most competitive suburban districts on which control of Congress will hinge -- is more inclined to vote Democratic than at any point since Sept. 11, 2001, according to data compiled for The Washington Post by the Pew Research Center.

Married mothers said in interviews here that they remain concerned about national security and the ability of Democrats to keep them safe from terrorist strikes. But surveys indicate Republicans are not benefiting from this phenomenon as they have before.

Disaffection with President Bush, the Iraq war, and other concerns such as rising gasoline prices and economic anxiety are proving more powerful in shaping voter attitudes...http://tinyurl.com/r55o6
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