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“It's too far out to extrapolate. But for now, House and Senate Republicans are pretty much joined at the hip with the president?. When he falls in the polls, it's not good for them.”
Charlie Cook
“The president looks terrible. The administration is kind of playing catch-up now.”
“Those who landed in Rhode Island or Utah, I doubt will stay, ... But those in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Dallas or Houston are more likely to stay because it is not such an alien culture. And of those who come back, what will the mix be? More African-Americans? More whites? You could argue either way.”
“Anything that focuses media and public attention on Iraq war casualties day after day — particularly [something] that is a good visual for television, like a weeping Gold Star mother — is a really bad thing for President Bush and his administration.”
“I think if McCain-Feingold goes down, Sen. McCain will still be a force in the Senate,”
“He'll be a force, but obviously it will be a blow if his signature issue goes down in flame.”
“By an eight-point margin, voters are now more likely to call themselves Democrats than Republicans; there was no gap in self-identification a year ago.”
“There's certainly a sense of foreboding among Republicans that this is the big one. This is the one that could really catch on.”
“I think the leadership conference will be the first major cattle show before the 2008 election, and it should be pretty much mandatory attendance for any candidate seeking election in 2008.”
“I wouldn't want to stand between Chuck Schumer and anything he really wanted.”
