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...reaction to Tuesday’s losses suggests that most Republicans do recognize the true breadth of the problems the party faces. But regardless of their level of understanding, recovery will take time. Republicans cannot pretend that simply disavowing prior errors of judgment and promising a fresh start will instantly solve their problems. The credibility gap that Congressional Republicans’ corruption, arrogance, ineptitude, and hopeless defense of the Bush administration has created is simply too great. The negative impact of the past can only be erased with time...
...longtime bastion of Latinos, home to many recent Mexican arrivals; and “Groveland,” a South Side neighborhood of middle class black residents and a seat of historic black culture. While Wilson and Taub rarely extrapolate a conclusion for the nation or offer a normative judgment, they have chosen their neighborhoods carefully enough that their observations likely hold relevance for urban centers across the country...
Rove chalks up the loss to corruption, incumbent overconfidence and conservative dissatisfaction with spending. He does not read the outcome as exclusively a judgment on either Iraq or Bush. "Iraq mattered," Rove says. "But it was more frustration than it was an explicit call for withdrawal." Which is not to say the White House didn't see trouble coming. To keep the Republican National Committee from having to take out a loan, according to Republican officials, Bush chipped in $12 million of his campaign funds that otherwise would have gone to his presidential library. Looking ahead, friends say Rove...
...scenes of suburbia are the ultimate self-portraits, their bright exteriors hinting at shadowy, unknowable lives that the viewer can only guess at. In Arkley's case it was a long-term heroin addiction, which finally claimed his life. But his surviving work asks us to leave our final judgment open, which is what distinguishes him from that more cynical chronicler of the everyday, John Brack. Instead, we are left with a glimmer of mirth, irony perhaps, but not least of all affection for what takes place behind the masquerade of suburban life...
...Outside of Virginia, the Allen campaign's most subtle but surely most misguided error in judgment went largely unnoticed: Faced with a challenger steadfastly in the middle (Webb served in Reagan's Administration, is a former Marine and takes a conservative line on immigration), Allen ran to Webb's left. One campaign commercial rattled off a series of Webb statements painting him as unfriendly to women's interests at best, a misogynist at worst. The ad's tagline? "Webb: Right for '06 ... 1806." Ham-fisted, corny and apparently unaware that there are plenty of Virginians who pine for the 19th...