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Originally posted by Spanky
The reasons why the Dems are going to screw this election up is that they are just the anti-Republicans. They do not have a policy plan of their own. No contract with America:
Can anyone on this board say what the Dems will do if they take over congress?
What is the Democratic party's plan with Iraq?
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What is the Republican Party's plan with Iraq? The President's "no cut and run"? If you watch senators and congressmen in close races, you might think otherwise. Heck, even George Allen -- on the same day that the President stood next to him and pulled in half a million dollars for him -- says that "no cut and run" isn't going to work.
Putting aside the question of whether the Democratic Party has ever been united around anything, this is an off-year election, and the United States is not a parliamentary democracy (which is why those generic congressional polls are worthless). The question should be what do the people of New Jersey think of Bob Menendez's plan for Iraq as opposed to Tom Kean's plan. Or what the people of Virginia think of Jim Webb's plan as opposed to George Allen's.
I think that 1994 was an anomoly, and that the effect of the Contract on voters has been overstated. As for other off-year shifts in power, I don't think that the Democrats were any more unified with a "plan" to fix the economy in 1982, or a "plan" to fix corruption in 1974, than they are with a "plan" to fix Iraq today. Heck, I don't even think that the Republicans were all that unified with any plan in 1946, other than thanking God that FDR had finally died -- you had a party made up of a mixture of rock-ribbed islolationsists, anti-New Dealers, Eastern internationalists, Sunbelt strivers, and Western conservationists.
