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A separate series of focus-group polls to test issues for the Democrats showed that "only on terrorism and security do Democrats lose," Democratic strategists James Carville, Stanley Greenberg and Robert Shrum wrote in a memo.

Which, of course, is completely different from the results of every PUBLICLY-AVAILABLE poll. Add all the Special Sauce you want, guys. It won't make it true.

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A separate series of focus-group polls to test issues for the Democrats showed that "only on terrorism and security do Democrats lose," Democratic strategists James Carville, Stanley Greenberg and Robert Shrum wrote in a memo.

Which, of course, is completely different from the results of every PUBLICLY-AVAILABLE poll. Add all the Special Sauce you want, guys. It won't make it true.

Exactly. They might have an advantage on some issues when it pits Democrats in Congress with Republicans in Congress (though the latter group has a 59-57 advantage in job approval with Americans over the former); but when it is Bush against Democrats in Congress, it's a bloodbath. Bush owns the education issue in a big way, for example.