AP: Three steps to November Democratic landslide, if party can close deal

[DeepModem Mom]

Democrats Eye November Landslide
May 29
By RON FOURNIER
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON

Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking -- each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.

First step: Voters must focus on the national landscape on Nov. 7 rather than local issues and personalities that usually dominate midterm elections....Second step: Voters must be so angry at Washington and politics in general that an anti-incumbent, throw-the-bums-out mentality sweeps the nation....Third step: Americans must view the elections as a referendum on President Bush and the GOP-led Congress, siding with Democrats in a symbolic vote against the Iraq war, rising gas prices, economic insecurity and the nagging sense that the nation is on the wrong track.

That would destroy Republicans, sweeping them from power in one or both chambers and making Bush a lame duck.

Less than six months out, most Democratic and Republican strategists say the first two elements are in place for now -- a national, anti- incumbent mind-set -- and all signs point to the third.

Still, many Democrats worry that their party has not closed the deal....

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/29/D8HTJP780.html

[msongs]

1. uh oh, saw this earlier - the headlines the headlines

wish the dems would publicly declare the bush administration an enemy of the american people and campaign against bushco criminal behaviors. not likely tho.

[Union Thug]

3. I agree - there won't be any landslide if the Dems aren't willing to draw

both clear lines and political blood. The cons are easy targets right now. Take advantage of it and don't relent.

[janx]

2. Associated Press--giving opinion rather than news...

AS USUAL.

[madfloridian]

4. The unnamed sources inside the DNC......baloney reporting.

Name the sources when you do that....or at least make sense, Ron.