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IMHO, and those of other swing voters who will decide who wins this November, Dubya needs to do the following in order to squeak out a win:

1. Dump Cheney - anyone but Cheney will raise Dubya's poll numbers in key swing voter states.
2. Flush the neo-cons (Wolfowitz, Pearle, Rumsfeld? and their snooty yuppie staffers) from the current administration. Let them take the fall for both this Iraq war and the WMD debacles.
3. The entire Bush administration must take a firm and public stance against gay marriage/civil unions and other such unholy alliances.
4. The entire Bush administration must take a firm and public stance supporting expiration of the Clinton Gun Ban (so-called "Assault Weapons Ban"), plus, show tangible support for REPEAL of numerous other gun control laws currently "on the books."
5. Repeal the entire so-called "Patriot Act", or at least eliminate certain major portions thereof. Merely dumping Ashcroft may not be enough.

Otherwise, the Bush Campaign can kiss certain states, especially Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, goodbye.

Bush may lose Ohio this time around (and with it, the election), but the issue will be job loss, not the ones you listed. John Kerry gave a speech yesterday at a union hall not a quarter of a mile from where I'm sitting now (yes, I had to take a shower and burn my clothing last night) and he was absolutely slaughtering Bush and the Republicans on this issue. It's not like he (Kerry) will solve the problem, and in fact will likely make it worse, but still it gave him the 4x8 he needed to club Bush over the head again and again. If Bush loses any more of flyover country than he did last time, he's toast.

People on FR talk a lot about the Rats having to "run the table" to make it close this year. But they forget that Bush essentially has to do the same thing. He has to hold what he had last time and hopefully pick off a few other states to make it more comfortable. I think he'll have a hard time doing that if things continue as they are. He's already in trouble here, and I think NH and NV will also be a question. NH because it was very close last time, and Kerry is a New Englander, a regional identity that Gore didn't have last time. NV because it was close last time and Bush has lost support because of the Yucca Mountain controversy (even though he's on the right side of that issue). So there are three states alone that we'll probably have to work at to hold onto.

The actions would make it look like Bush was on the run. Instead, he should come up wiyh new individual rights which will be added to The Bill of Rights by constitutional amendment. One would be the right to not go to a public school but to receive 75% of the per pupil expenditure to use to pay for a private school. This would be an absolute right. The reasoning is that the US secondary schools have failed to teach science and math and will never be reformed because they are controlled by the dead hand of unions. The next right would be for a person to chose arbitration instead of a court in the case of any crime except murder. The point is that the system is too expensive, the point being that even if not guilty you will be broke at the end of the battle. The next right would be to defeat zero tolerance at schools by immediate consideration by an administrative judge elected by the people for a term and not for life. The next right is that a person's property cannot be forfeited until he is convicted of a crime.The next right would be that nobody's total tax burden could exceed 1/3 of his income. This includes all taxes.The next right is that no one is subject to punitive damages, only compensatory damages. The reason is that a bunch of emotional jurors should not be able to go crazy with awards.What other rights would you suggest? The focus should be on improving the rights of the individual in face of the overwhelming destructive power of today's government and imperious court system.