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...short while longer, they maintain a 50-49 majority and hold the chairs of the country's most powerful committees. But don't expect a last-minute surge of left-leaning legislation. With last week's Republican sweep hanging over their heads, and the looming promise of GOP control, the Dems know it would be extremely imprudent to spend their last weeks in power single-mindedly advancing their own agenda. Payback time, after all, is just around the corner...
...been great," Lott said. Not only had Bush and Cheney been barnstorming the country but Bush had ordered every cabinet officer who could legally do it to hit the road and campaign the last month. It paid off, Lott told Cheney, poll numbers for key GOP candidates like Chambliss, "were moving all the time" the past month, Lott told Cheney, and usually up. The two men turned to capturing the Senate next week. Talent "is on my list of people to call today," Lott told Cheney. "The minute he shows up here with his papers and gets sworn...
Dissent: Clear Victory for GOP...
...South Florida in Tampa. While the chief voter concern was schools, she notes, Floridians were willing to entertain the notion of change. "But when they suddenly start thinking about all the economic uncertainty we're living under now, then change of leadership is a lot less appealing." Florida GOP Chairman Al Cardenas concurred: "People in Florida realized at the end of the day that Jeb Bush has their utter confidence." As for the national effect of the landslide, Cardenas added, "It was the Democrats who called [the Florida governor election] a plebiscite on George W. Bush's presidency. They...
...president can certainly claim a little favorable wind behind his plan to privatize Social Security. Candidates who ran on that plan, such as Elizabeth Dole and Lindsay Graham, did well, vindicating Karl Rove and other conservatives in the party have been fighting an internal party battle over whether GOP candidates should run on the issue. Many conservatives blame Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Tom Davis for watering down Bush's ideas, telling his candidates that running on Social Security private accounts was too risky. Whether or not Davis was right, it will be harder for him or other nervous Republicans...