--Why the HECK do the Dems want to be in a hurry to settle on ONE candidate? All that is going to happen to whoever gets identified as leader of the pack is that person is going to get pounded wtih every form of negative ads and mud for six months before the election! Or would a cynic just think that the current also rans hope that if Dean is the front runner, the Bush machine will pound him out of the picture before the convention to make room for one of the also-rans?
--Even if a Democrat gets elected President, he / she is going to be legislative toast if both houses of Congress are still controlled by the current nutballs. Maybe I just troll in the wrong electronic ponds, but I have seen NOTHING anywhere connected with either the various Dem campaigns or with, say, Nader, that seems like a coherent strategy backed up by serious policy oomph to elect people able to have a legislative impact. Does anyone want to wander around in the questions:
Can Congressional push ride on Demo Presidential coattails alone or shoud the struggle fro COngress have any impact on Presidential strategy?
What do we expect from Nader and / or the Greens as far as citizen mobilizations and other impacts on Congress??????
Comments? Just curious!
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