Dems election strategy.

[Ress1]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/002737.html


This article was too short to snip, sorry if not proper, also, sorry if this has been posted. I think it is a timely strategy.


"Although Arnold Schwarzenegger's entry into the California governor's race "looks like bad news for Democrats," the party "is hoping to use the state's recall circus as ammunition in the upcoming presidential election," the Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib reports.

Democrats are beginning to portray the recall effort "as part of a pattern in which Republicans try to use strong-arm legal tactics to seize political power they failed to win at the ballot box." And although the article doesn't make these points, in addition to the mess in California, you can assume Democrats hope to remind voters of the disputed 2000 presidential election, the current redistricting fight in Texas and Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Which probably explains this morning's New York Times story on the former president's interest in California these days. "Clinton, who himself survived a recall effort of sorts, has over the past week become one of Gov. Gray Davis's main strategic advisers... And the game plan Mr. Clinton laid out to Mr. Davis, one of Mr. Clinton's associates noted with some amusement, is strikingly similar to the one Mr. Clinton employed to survive impeachment."

[Larkspur]

1. The difference was that Clinton still had high popularity numbers

when he was heading towards impeachment. Davis is sucking wind.