"With President Bush and the Republican Party on the rocks, many Democrats
think the 2008 election will be, to borrow a favorite GOP phrase, a cakewalk.
Some liberals are so confident about Democratic prospects that they contend the
centrism that vaulted Democrats to victory in the 1990s no longer matters. The
temptation to ignore the vital center is nothing new. Every four years, in the
heat of the nominating process, liberals and conservatives alike dream of a
world in which swing voters don't exist. Some on the left would love to pretend
that groups such as the Democratic Leadership Council, the party's leading
centrist voice, aren't needed anymore."
I think that if there is only one word that could describe this election, it is Iraq. Americans are unhappy about the war, and the way that the war has been fought. Going into office with the belief that Americans are strongly supporting the Democratic party is a bad idea. One because I think that Americans don't support the Democrats as much as they oppose the Republicans. It will only take a few years for the shadow of Iraq to fade in peoples minds. If the party has not reached out to Americans in those years, the public could just as easily swing back towards the Republicans.
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