Reply #13: I think this sort of difference in emphasis is healthy

[OnTheOtherHand]

I'm glad that preventing election fraud tops your to do list, because it needs to get done.

(My screen name is "OnTheOtherHand," not "LoppingOffTheFirstHand"!)

Bush has a pretty solid base, but it is far enough below 1/2 that his team is definitely vulnerable. I think it can be dangerous to put ourselves in the frame of mind that a near-majority will "always" blindly support them. Isn't that more or less telling ourselves that democracy can't work? And if that's true, then what the heck are we doing, anyway?

That said, there are lots of reasons why winning back Congress will be very hard.