This week on www.StopDemocrats.com **The News** Main Story:
Posted on 11/11/2002 9:36:38 AM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom
This week on www.StopDemocrats.com **The News** Main Story:
*Bush makes morning visit to Vietnam memorial: President Bush used the Veterans Day holiday to praise American troops for their historical sacrifices and warn again of a possible confrontation with Iraq.
In Other News:
*Americans credit President Bush's popularity and his handling of what to do about Iraq as chief reasons for Republican success in the midterm elections, a poll indicates.
*Georgia Republicans' roll continued, as the GOP converted a third Democratic state senator and handed Gov.-elect Sonny Perdue control of half of the Legislature.
*Saying that "now is the time for us to come together as Alabamians," Republican challenger Bob Riley again declared victory in the state's gubernatorial race and called on Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman to drop his demand for a statewide recount.
*If you thought that the defeat of yet another Kennedy in Maryland was the icing on the cake on Election Day, hold on - there's more. In New York the Liberal Party failed to garner enough votes to retain a permanent place on the ballot. In New York, a minor party maintains a permanent line on the ballot by earning 50,000 or more votes for the party's gubernatorial candidate.
*Dems in Disarray: Influential Iowa Democrats say the presidential hopes of vanquished U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and outgoing House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt suffered significant damage Tuesday in their party's poor showing in the midterm elections.
Articles and Commentary:
*Time: Bush, Rove, and the Republican Sweep -> Karl Rove's strategy for winning the midterm elections was risky and brash, like its author. Here is the inside story of how the President and his political strategist gambled it all and won.
*No More 49% Nation
The political scientists are going to have to rewrite the rules. Presidents' parties are not supposed to gain House seats in off-year elections, especially when the economy is sluggish. Presidents' parties are not supposed to recapture–in fact have never recaptured–a majority of seats in the Senate. Last week George W. Bush's Republicans–and they are George W. Bush's Republicans–did those improbable and impossible things. We now have a Republican government. The margins in both House and Senate are narrow but large enough to be impervious to a party-switcher.
In a post-election column shrewdly dissecting the Democrats' weaknesses, the insightful liberal E. J. Dionne wrote, "We remain a 50-50 country." Not quite. I was the first to write that we are a "49 percent nation" in the Almanac of American Politics 2002, in which I noted that Bill Clinton was re-elected with 49 percent, that George W. Bush and Al Gore both won 48 percent, and that Republicans held the House in 1996, 1998, and 2000 by popular vote margins of 49-48.5, 49-48, and 49-48 percent.
Featured Website: *Veterans Day:: Visit this website for information on Veterans' statistics, the Medal of Honor, history of the holiday, and more.
Featured Photograph: *President Bush pays a solemn visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, on Veterans Day.
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