JustWonders wrote:Don't forget that most in this country still don't know what the Democrats are for. We know that they're against almost everything. but that usually won't win elections.
Don't confuse your own perspective with that of "most in this country".
Even just according to this one poll, "most in this country" know pretty well what they trust the Dems to do well on. Over 50% of them say they think the Dems would do a better job on strengthening Social Security, improving education, creating jobs and making prescription drugs affordable.
Those are all pretty positive agenda items, not just "we're against Bush / the war". An ample relative majority even thinks the Democrats can be trusted (more) when they say they're for holding down federal spending.
I agree with you, sadly, that the whole Plame thing, or the Delay thing for that matter, wont in the end shift many votes; it only has an impact in the sense that it adds to a general sense of malaise. (For proof of that general sense of malaise, check the 66% - yes,
two-thirds of the people in your country - in the same, bipartisan poll who say "things in this country have they gotten off on the wrong track". Up from 53-57% in the past two years).
People with a sense of general malaise tend to rebel at unexpected moments, look at what happened in '94. "Unexpected moments" means I'm not sure if it'll happen in '06 either. But your insouciance can't in any case be argued on the basis of what "most in this country" purportedly know or don't know; on that count, the numbers contradict your rhetorics.
Iraq, finally - "not a problem if it stays on the current trajectory"? Only 24% - yes, that's less than one in
four - still is "confident that U.S. policies in Iraq will be successful". Your confidence there is definitely
not shared by "most in this country" of yours.