The world community knows what's at stake in this election. They're watching us

[bigtree]

and, looking to gauge the heart of America. After basically deciding that we must approve of what Bush has done because of his re-ascendance to office, they have to be anxiously waiting to see if WE have what it takes to manage OUR democracy.


U.S. election: It's all up to the American voter now

By Brian Knowlton
International Herald Tribune

Americans went to the polls Tuesday after a bruising election campaign, with Democratic candidates appealing to voters worried about Iraq and Republicans mobilizing their vaunted turnout machine.

Top Democrats like Senator Charles Schumer of New York and Emanuel, the heads of the Democratic election campaigns in their respective chambers, tried to keep voters' minds on what they portrayed as the president's seriously flawed plans for Iraq.

They said a vote for a Republican candidate was a vote to keep Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in place. Bush said last week that he wanted both Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney to stay through his final two years in office.

Cheney said Sunday that the administration's Iraq policy would not be affected by the elections. But the Democrats' national chairman, Howard Dean, said major gains for his party would be "a signal for a new direction."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/07/news/campaign.php



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[wake.up.america]

1. Yes, we are watching to see just low it goes in America.

[bigtree]

3. I hear ya

[BlueManDude]

2. they've been watching us for 6 years and we've let them down every time

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Yes we are

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2600803

[nebenaube]

5. Yep and if we lose...

It's really only a matter of time before the new international alliance forms to defeat fascism again...