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Originally Posted by Lurch
Scandals lost the election for the Liberals in Canada. Were you among the "who cares" crowd for these.
US economy is actually in rough shape, and I'm not sure where you get the idea it is not. GDP growth has slowed each of the past 3 quarters, and now is about half of potential. (1.6% growth in Q3). The housing boom is over and there is a looming disaster when this works its way through the economy. Personal debt levels will probably put a damper on future growth as well, as the US economy is heavily consumer dependant.
Iraq: I doubt few voters care about why it started, but Republicans have certainly shown they can't manage the act of it.
Simple fact is since Republicans have controlled all three elected branches, they have to run on their record. Dems have the same luxury the Conservatives had here in Canada - the current group is a disaster.
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Well I have heard in the last little while the that US economy is showing many promising signs. In fact last night they had a panel on Larry King and one of the questions that they discussed was whether the good economic news would help the Rep's. Also asked was the importance of scandals.
Watched a couple of other programs over the weekend where same topics were discussed and all of them said economy was good but the war was an overiding issue. Plus all of them said the scandals were having a very limited effect except in a certain few races.
I personally don't see why voters would switch. I'm hearing on the news that not many will and that it will depend entirely on whose supporters turn out.