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It appears that the mid-terms may not yet be the slam dunk the Democrats were hoping for! A prime example is Texas' 22nd Congressional District, formerly held by Tom DeLay. According to a poll by the Houston Cronicle and KHOU-TV, the Republican write-in effort to hold Mr. DeLay's former congressional seat, once viewed as a long shot, has created a tight race. Thirty-five percent of respondents said they would vote for a write-in candidate---a statistical tie with the 36 percent support for Democrat Nick Lampson, according to the poll of more than 500 likely voters in the 22nd Congressional District. Seventy-nine percent of respondents who say they will write in a candidate plan on naming Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, a Houston city councilwoman backed by the Republican Party. Two lesser-known candidates also are running as write-ins.

Mr. Lampson has relied on outside contributions (especially from the doyens of the Hollywood Left, such as Barbara Streisand), and has spent millions of dollars on this race. However, he cannot get more than thirty-six percent of the district's voters to support him. Had Mr. DeLay remained in the race, Mr. Lampson would probably have had a chance of unseating him. But Ms. Sekula-Gibbs has served on the Houston City Council for five years and is well-known in the district.

The pundits and talking heads had been predicting a Democratic victory in this race, but it now appears that might not come to fruition. In these final days of the campaign, many House races once thought as being vulnerable to the Democrats have tightened up.

"...low taxes, no gay marriage, no abortion and above all belief in God."

It is disturbing, almost upsetting, that, as Americans, we are free to form our own beliefs but not to practice them.

I defy you to explain how believing in god will balance the budget.

As a longtime resident of east TN, I can vouch for this report. The issues around here are a fundamental lack of education, and a disregard for most anything that doesn't interact with or affect daily life. Don't get me wrong, we're not dumb; as some of these "one-toothed hillbillies" can list from memory not only the majority of (if not all) inhabitants of their hometown, but most of their genealogies as well. The problem is that they couldn't tell you why the French revolution and WWI were the two most devastating events western civilization has ever endured. Point blank: we all lost and suffer the consequences of the path western culture has embarked upon since those two momentous calamities. They have no idea that in 1953 Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, was a WWII ally, a highly strategic piece of land (due to the aforementioned disaster we call WWI), and a friend...until we decided to get rid of him and install a dictatorial monarchy.

Not one person of influence I know of around here has any real idea of why the neocons with; all the money they could need, the most formidable invasion army in human history, a rubber stamp legislature and judiciary, popular support, and the most lucrative spoils an oil based economy could want...have utterly and completely failed to achieve even one of their lofty, idealistic, and completely self-serving goals. The truly harmful effects of their colossal failure will never be felt by the majority here today in East TN. For them, seeing two guys holding hands at the county fair is far more devastating than hearing about more than a half million people slaughtered because of our war. Not many give thought (even town residents) to the part our little collection of ramshackle hovels called Oak Ridge played in ensuring humanity's very existence can be erased with the push of a button.

So tell me again why it even matters who wins this election. I honestly want to know.

"..and above all belief in God."

Please Claire...a little less stereotyping. (Can we also say that all Brits are well mannered with an impeccable command of the Queen's English?)

According to a Pew Research analysis of the 2004 elections: "Nationwide, Republican identification among white evangelicals increased from 39% in 1999 to 48% today. In 2004, white evangelicals made up 23% of the population, and 37% of the Republican Party."

While it is true that religious people are more likely to vote for conservative policies it does equally follow that political conservatives are necessarily church-goers.

To C Flores: Former congressman Delay's seat is one of the safest republican seats in the House thanks to his GOP-friendly redistricting. Getting elected to it as a republican is supposed to be as easy as getting elected to a seat in San Francisco as a liberal democrat. If anything, the fact that Delay's annointed successor is having to work so hard for an election he should have otherswise been able to phone in suggests that the rampant corruption of the GOP led Congress has not gone unnoticed, even on their home turf.

I guess we can be happy with rampant poverty, a broken health care system, the largest deficit in the history of humanity, an unjust war, led by incompetance, that has led to thousands of American deaths and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi deaths, rampant cronyism and corruption throughout the government, tax brakes that overwhelmingly help the rich, loopholes and no bid contracts that overwhelmingly line the pockets of big business, and a lack of a decent minimum wage......as long as we stop a couple of adult strangers from getting married on the steps of San Francisco city hall. *sigh* When you folks want to wake up and realize that the GOP is using these "wedge" issues to fool you into voting against your own good and the good of the overwhelming majority of your fellow citizens, then maybe we can make some serious progress in the world. Until the, we continue to slip back into the stone ages. Wake up.

I guess an atheist like Thomas Jefferson would have been voted out by some of these clowns.

The U.S. regression continues. Those who can still support the GOP after the last 6 horrendous years need to remember the old adage, "actions speak louder than words". The Republican party loves to say all the right things for their beloved "base", but when you look at what they DO, you see that they stand for the Wealthy elite of this country. They stand for big business. They stand against the poor and middle classes.

Whatever the Republicans feel is not the question, or much less, of concern to the many millions of Americans and people from around the world that are observing horrified how the current American Administration tramples over people, countries, economies and especially the environment, and whose repercusions future generations will feel. The beliefs of no gay marriage and no abortion and belief in God (whichever god that may be) and low taxes (at what costs?) are only secondary in importance to what a civilized America of old would consider truly important considering the context of the worlds affairs today. I hope, the republicans are voted out, and if possible, excluded from future politics as they represent all that is negative to a healthy community of the world. May they be voted out, and then get out of the middle east!

I will never understand the psyche of my countryman american who votes for the erosion of his/her rights and liberties. The Bush administration has done just that. Bush may say he is a believer in God, but it is my belief that his record as a President is anything but Christian...

Yuck. Remind me to never, ever go to rural Tennessee.

Today's Republican party believes that the government should dictate moral and family values to us. It's quite sickening. My family values came from my parents and grandparents. They did not come from any political party and certainly not from the govenment.

Wonder if the verdict on the republicans as evident from the early polls and the media calls are going to hold, until we see the final poll results.

This is because statistics can always change due to scandals at the last minute and undecided voters swinging.

I do not think there is a real need to write off the republicans until the election results are announced.

A gripe that I have is that the republican party did not make any efforts at fixing the Legal Immigration System for highly qualified, highly educated immigrants (scientists, doctors, engineers). Wonder if the S. 2691, legislation known as the 鈥淪KIL Bill鈥� (Securing Knowledge Innovation and Leadership), introduced by Senator John Cornyn (R, TX) and co-sponsored by Senators George Allen (R, VA), Wayne Allard (R-CO), Robert Bennett (R-UT), Michael Enzi (R-WY), and Trent Lott (R-MS), will be discussed in the lame duck session.

The Republicans aren't dead yet because their criminals are sending our children to be killed in Iraq.

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news. First question: Is Ms. Bolderson a spokesperson for the
republican party in USA. We do not share the politics of Mr. Bush and his friends like Mr. Ramsfeld and Mr. Cheney.
I trust you will be commenting on the Democrates without prejudice.
We don't love our current Government either.
However, I've been reading news from Britain regulary. My wife is Scottish.
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amen to comcast alfred.

amazingly well put dissection of the real problem behind the american vote.

the fact remains that the people who turn out in the highest numbers to vote are the ones who are up on a soapbox about their moral viewpoints. and it is true, they dont care at all about how many people get slaughtered in iraq or how many children get molested in washington.

what they hear and care about is that one party puts an emphasis on god (christian god, of course) and the other doesnt, and that pretty much seals the case. as long as you are anti abortion and anti gay and talk about god alot, you can get a republican vote. and thats pretty sad.