If the republicans can get the economy going again, get all the jobs back, and get american companines to open up factories in america, the republicans will sweep all the elections in 2004.
If the republicans choose to keep unemployment up and continue to encourage american companies to move to asia and hire asian, then they wont.
I dont see any other major issue for 2004 that will swing huge amounts of votes besides the economy and jobs.
What government policies do you specfically propose to accomplish this?
If the republicans choose to keep unemployment up and continue to encourage american companies to move to asia and hire asian, then they wont.
I think you've just outed yourself as a socialist here--you simply presume that government can magically create jobs, and the fact that government ISN'T creating the jobs right now is purely because Republicans don't WANT people to be employed. (You probably believe that Republicans want to throw old people out into the street and take away kids' school lunches, too.)
I dont see any other major issue for 2004 that will swing huge amounts of votes besides the economy and jobs.
Well, there IS this War on Terrorism thingie. I have yet to see a Democrat candidate who sounds sane on the topic. And most people I know who voted for Gore in 2000 are leaning toward Bush in 2004--only the die-hard yellow-dog Democrats have any fire for any candidate, and that candidate is either Howard Dean or Dennis Kucinich. And neither of those two inspire confidence on the national defense issue.
America voted for the Clintons in part because the Cold War ended, and we decided that the Democrats' loopy positions on national defense weren't likely to harm us.
Most voters I've run into understand that 9/11 was the price of having eight years of Democrat control of the executive branch.