The Bush Team worried about a tight race

[Fixated]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/elec04.prez.bush.memo/index.html

When they admit it, you know they have a problem.

[otohara]

1. Worried, Why Worry - Diebold, Jeb & Media Whores

ready and willing to steal it again for Jr.

[grytpype]

2. Lots of problems.

Iraq is not going to get better. Period.

The economy might finally improve (thanks to the business cycle) but there's no way Bush will escape the honor of being the first president since Hoover to lose jobs.

The Dems have a number of great candidates to run against him, Dean, Clark, or Kerry, or even Gephardt.

The anti-Bush people will be highly motivated.

The press is starting to turn against him.

[spotbird]

4. As long as they don't restore the draft, no one gives a damn about

Iraq.

If the press were turning the CBS movie would air. It only seems to be turning because of the simple volume of bad news, it's hard to cast the loss of 16 boys as good.

The economy may be their Achilles Heel. Last quarter had some good but unsustainable numbers. GDP can’t continue to rise with rising unemployment. The stock marked is just like the Super Lotto now and the winners will cash out this month.

But then there is always the ace that they hold, BBV. So for us to win it would have to be a landslide to counteract the fraud.

The point of lowering expectations is to help fundraising, if the rich are worried they will toss 10 or 20k more in for the cause. If Chimp looks safe the rich might hang on to more of their money.

[lovedems]

5. I think people totally give a damn about Iraq

and I think once we have a candidate who starts to receive daily press, the whole idea about why we went to war with Iraq will probably get alot of centrists/swing voters to think about what kind of idiot we have running our country and all of the theives he has supporting him. I think the war, lack of jobs, the debt, the corporate cronyism and these idiots bumbling foreign policy give the dems alot of ammo and I trust we will get somewhere once we have a candidate. That is kind of one reason I don't want Gep. or Leib. to get the nomination (and I don't have anything against Gep) but they has been to soft on Bu$hco. for the past 3 years. I want a dem candidate who will step up and tell it like it is.

[onebigbadwulf]

6. oh...

it won't be close...

[Zero Gravitas]

3. "nature of a divided and polarized electorate"

thisis the closest they have come to acknowledging that Former Governor Bush is the leader of less than half of the less than half of the people that actually bothered to vote.

If Bush* had just once acknowledged that "The People" chose "the other guy" for President maybe he could claim to be legitimate. Maybe... Nah!