[AuH2ORepublican]

"Yes - I do fear that [Clooney] will win this election easily."

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You are being overly pessimistic. The 4th district gave President Bush 61.2% of the vote in 2000 (it was his second best district in KY), and will probably give him close to 65% in 2004 running against Kerry instead of Gore. And Ken Lucas, a popular incumbent Democrat who is more conservative than most Republicans in the House (and nearly switched to the GOP last year), beat the underfunded Davis by only 51.1% to 47.5% in 2002. If Davis is the GOP nominee, he will have a lot more money this time around, and evryone will know that Clooney is a liberal who will oppose the Bush agenda. I think Davis will end up beating Clooney rather easily; right now, I'd predict a 55%-43% victory.

Regarding the Democrat poll showing Clooney ahead, it would be interesting to find out if the people polled were informed to which party each of Clooney and Davis belonged.

[MasonGal]

I sure hope you are correct.

[PhiKapMom]

There seem to be a lot of pessemist on FR recently. Instead of hanging their heads, they should be out working to get Republicans elected with their feet as part of the Grassroots movement. Doom and gloom has to be kicked off here -- never saw anything like it.

Then Gov Bush was down to Ma Richards in the last week of the campaign and he clobbered her because not one supporter gave up or got down -- we kept right on working for his election with optimism going door to door to ask for people's votes.