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The New Hampshire Senate race is a “tossup” between Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Republican Gen. Don Bolduc, according to Politico, which updated its forecast Friday in favor of Republicans, along with races in Washington State and New York. While Politico finally moved the race to a tossup four days before Election Day, on Tuesday, RealClearPolitics already marked the Granite State race as a GOP pickup. The last two polls measuring the race on Tuesday and Thursday indicated Bolduc was leading the race by a slim margin. Bolduc has come from 13 points behind in just six weeks.

2004 Has Been A Political Disaster For BushUntil the last few weeks, 2004 has been a near disaster for George W. Bush’s presidency. Deaths of American soldiers in Iraq were rising. The Abu Ghraib prison scandal shocked and embarrassed the country, leading to more doubts about the Bush administration’s handling of the war and foreign policy in general. At the same time, there was a general lack of belief that the economy was recovering, thanks in large part to the liberal media. You remember the cliché, “The Jobless Recovery” that we heard almost daily until very recently. Add to that...