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...Even if Democrats pull together on some big issues, they'll still have to overcome G.O.P. bully pulpits in the White House and Congress--and a new reality: conservative bias in the media. "You've got a whole network [Fox News] out there that's banging for Republicans every day," says a senior elected Democrat. "They're No. 1 in the ratings, and they follow everything the President does all the time. How do you get around that...
...Democrats could do little more than insist on their relevance. "We're not going away," Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle said. "We're going to be fighting for the things we believe in." The loss of control may actually give Daschle more flexibility: sources tell TIME that as majority leader he often held his fire to guard against the defection of Georgia Democrat Zell Miller, who threatened to leave the party if Daschle came down too hard on the President. But Daschle and the rest of the party leadership have yet to lay out a compelling alternative to the President...
...Cleland, while Norm Coleman came back to defeat Walter Mondale in Minnesota. As soon as the final returns came in, Lott accelerated his plans for assuming control. Early last week he began courting Dean Barkley, the Independent appointed to serve out the last two months of the late Democrat Paul Wellstone's term. If Lott can lure Barkley to vote with the Republicans, he would effectively wrest control of the lame-duck Senate away from Daschle--before the new Congress is seated in January. "We're offering to be helpful to [Barkley] in any way we can," Lott told TIME...
...message problem is endemic to Democrats. The party boasts a big tent, but that tent doubles as a big boxing ring, and in the weeks before the election every genus of Democrat--from the Southern pro-gun, antiabortion members of Congress to the Northern pro-choice, gun-control liberals in the Senate--duked it out over how to counter the President's agenda. Liberals argued it was time to get tougher with Bush on Iraq and the economy; moderates, many of whom backed Bush's war resolution and tax-cut proposal, argued it was time to get tougher on liberals...
John Edwards, the Senator from North Carolina, was also hurt by the midterms. He campaigned hard for Erskine Bowles' unsuccessful Senate campaign in his home state, and now his own poll numbers look soft. "He's practically the only Democrat left standing in North Carolina," says a fund raiser who has considered backing Edwards in 2004. Edwards' Senate peer, Kerry, has fewer problems. He coasted to victory on Tuesday, and his criticism of last year's Tora Bora battle in Afghanistan, which failed to capture Osama bin Laden, and his credentials as a Vietnam War hero give him an edge...