Democrats Will Have to Hop Onto Security Wagon. Squawking about the Iraq war has turned away voters needed for victory in 2004
Many Democrats hope the 2004 election will unfold along the lines of the 1992 election, when their party regained the White House – despite then-President Bush’s Persian Gulf War success – by focusing on domestic affairs. It’s an appealing notion. It’s also wrong. The home-front-over-war-front approach didn’t work in the 2002 midterm elections, and it …