[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Love to see an updated version.

[Defend the Second]

"Pucker their Daschles". LOL! I love it.

[Dixie republican]

A blowout, with Bush approaching Reagan country and 400-plus electoral votes.

As much as I would like to see it, Bush won't be approaching Reagan Country in '04.

[Reeses]

bleeding Republican "red"

Red is the color of socialists and communists, hence it's Democrat Red, Republican Blue. Democrats like hiding behind blue because they must hide their true colors, and lying and misrepresentation is no problem for them. Two years ago the socialist media said the color switch was because blue is given to the incumbents, red the challengers. We are now the incumbents. Give us our damn color back!

[Cicero]

I agree. The networks and the Dems deliberately switched colors when they reported the Bush-Gore race. Republicans have always been true blue, and Democrats have always been radical red.

It's time to drop that silly, Orwellian reversal of colors. Since when have we let the media rewrite our language?

[Eva]

My guess in the Maryland race is that the sniper shootings highlighted the idiocy of the liberal stance against the death penalty and that put the final nail in KKT's political coffin.

In New England, I think that it was a combination of the war on terror (think Logan airport) and investors trusting Republicans more than tax and spend Democrats.

[Little Bill]

I think that if the war goes well and the economy picks up we could see a Nixon, Reagan type of landslide. The rats are goining to run a commie, Hitlery(?), and repeat the '72, '84, '88 elections. Every time the rats turn left they get their nads handed to them.

[SamAdams76]

The title is a little perplexing but good article. I don't get the impression that Bush's popularity is going to slip very much between now and the 2004 election cycle. I smell another Ronald Reagan landslide in the makings here. Hopefully Gore is nominated again so that he can tie Mondale's record of losing in all 50 states (Gore already lost his home state of Tennessee once).

[537 Votes]

Only a year or two ago, NRO was projecting that 2000 would be the last election that Republicans would even have a chance of winning, given the demographic shift caused by immigration trends. Bush may have upset this by doing well among Hispanics. If we can simultaneously court the Hispanic vote while stopping illegal immigration (it's not really in the best interest of legal-citizen Hispanics, you know), the Republican Party might just have a future.

[goldstategop]

I think California is too liberal to go for Bush but New York is definitely in play if only on account of 9-11 and if Bush wins New York and Ohio its all over for the Democrats.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Hehe, what is good about this article is not what it says but what it doesn't say. This 'start from the status quo last time and modify from there' analysis overlooks the fact that the support that Gore had then is unlikely to materialize in '04, especially after the post-election debacle. If Gore is the nominee in '04, forget 2.5% bounce, even 5% bounce, it would rather be a 10% or more, 400+ electoral vote bonanza for Bush.

If its somebody else, we can only hope its somebody like Gephardt or Gray Davis, we're talking '84 repeat. Look what happened in MD when Gore showed up...instant death for KKT, and that was a heavy blue state. Heh.

[Teacher317]