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...domestic front, the President will work hard to make his tax cuts permanent and will probably now succeed. Legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security will probably pass as Democrats cut and run on the issue. Many in the party already blame the Cleland loss in Georgia on the Democratic leadership's inflexibility on that issue. White House aides say that Bush will now return to the issues of compassionate conservatism and community character-building that appeals to moderate voters and attempts to capture the spirit of national unity in the wake of the 9/11 attacks...
...It’s like homeland security: we’re more interested in excluding mice than in killing them [once they’re inside],” he said...
Tomorrow, America will experience the election that wasn’t. The campaign season which should have been the time for all candidates to offer innovative solutions for social security, education and homeland security has instead fallen victim to a cosmetic partisanship and mud-slinging that leaves voters alienated and candidates indistinguishable...
...returned to the cold calculus of midterm elections. With Wellstone's death, the Senate is divided 49 to 49 to 1. If Coleman were to win, he would fill the vacancy immediately, and Republicans would suddenly have an advantage that could help them push through President Bush's struggling Homeland Security bill before the new year. Optimism, though, was hard to find among G.O.P. officials, who fear a possible repeat of what one G.O.P. Senator called the "Jean Carnahan syndrome." Two years ago, Carnahan's husband, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, died in a plane crash while campaigning. His name remained...
...President Bush knows the outcome could determine the agenda for the rest of his term. A sympathetic Congress will make it far easier to pass bills on Iraq, tax cuts and homeland security issues. It would also help speed up the stalled process of judicial appointments. The President has spent weeks on the road campaigning for Republican candidates, breaking fundraising records and helping to net a whopping $190 million for GOP races. Democrats, who've just begun to take advantage of Bill Clinton as a fundraiser, raised $130 million...