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Oct. 18, 2004 There’s something about this election that ushers in a sense of urgency and importance. Perhaps it’s the feeling that we Democrats do not want to have another President-select entering the White House. Maybe it’s the senior citizens who are upset over getting stiffed with the new Medicare plan. Maybe it’s the gay and lesbian couples throughout the country who feel the Constitution may be used by the “Moral Majority” to oppress their liberties. Maybe it’s that growing sense that it’s time for a regime change here at home. As was said in a news story not long ago, Karl Rove is now trimming his sails down from an expected Bush blowout to the closest of electoral college squeakers. He is beginning to realize that, in order for President George W. Bush to be re-elected this November, he must defy all electoral history. No President with numbers this low, where the majority of Americans see the United States as “on the wrong track,” has ever been re-elected. After three debates, and President Bush taking punches to the face and gut as if he were fighting against Muhammed Ali, and with John Kerry the decided victor of the three “discussions,” we see Bush’s support begin to crack. Iowa and Florida, once stalwart Bush states only a month ago, are now exact ties. Ohio now swings for Kerry. Even Arkansas and Missouri, conservative home runs in 2000, are only holding to Bush by one or two percentage points. This election marks a major event in United States political history. Never before have we faced such great challenges, and had a more underdog Democrat surge up from near death in the primaries to run neck-and-neck with the incumbent. The closest we can come to this also involves a Bush - President George H.W. Bush - who went down in flames amidst a groundswell for Bill the Budget Balancer. We may soon be seeing the end of the Bush Administration. It is impossible to gauge the political field right now, and will be so until October 31st, just two days before the election on November 2nd. However, looking at the poll trends in such swing states as Colorado, Nevada and Wisconsin, Kerry has led for the majority of polling time in all of them. George W. Bush started out his campaign preparing to take down the Vermont Fireball, Howard Dean. When Kerry surged up, Bush painted him as a ninny, a flip-flopping, French-looking candidate with nothing to offer. Two debates later, the word “Flip-flop” has been abandoned by Bush campaign officials who now try to paint Kerry as a “Massachusetts Liberal,” and “Friend of Ted Kennedy.” The attacks on John Kerry’s ability to be President were muted once and for all when Senator Kerry outdid the President of the United States not only in looking Presidential, but in understanding the fundamental mistakes President Bush has made. If we all remember, when Bush was asked to name a mistake - twice so far - he has never come up with any. How can you take a stance of trying to fix something if you don’t even admit you’ve made the mistake? On November 2nd, we’ll see how many American voters - from Ohio to Florida to New Hampshire to Nevada - have noticed the flaws that Bush so ignorantly gleans over. ------------ About the author: Max Burns is a 17-year-old conservative Democrat, writer, pollster, pundit and aspiring Indiana politician. He currently works for the Indiana Democratic Party and writes for The Progressive Voice (http://politics.bakshi.us). Read the fantasy-fiction novel "Alcardia". Email: DeMBurns@gmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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