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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Do you want this guy’s candidate to become our president? If not, you can do something about it.

Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, I ask my readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign.

If you’ve already donated and volunteered for the Bush campaign, then talk to your friends and enlist them in this battle for America’s very soul.

If you’re a blogger, you can join Wictory Wednesdays simply by putting up a post like this one every Wednesday, asking your readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign. And do e-mail me at wictory@blogsforbush.com so that I can add you to the Wictory Wednesday blogroll, which will be part of the Wictory Wednesday post on all participating blogs:

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Howard Dean has significantly widened his lead in a national poll, jumping from 20 percent on December 14 to 31 percentnow. Democrat primary voters seem to be shrugging off Saddam’s capture.

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The DNC has an interesting strategy for 2004.

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Remember my Dean-world liberal cocoon theory? The New Republic’s Dean-o-Phobe blog is echoing it:

One of the most disturbing things about Dean and his hard-core supporters is that they give the impression that they know nothing at all of why President Bush is successful, and therefore what it takes to beat him. Read the pro-Dean blogs, and the you come away with the view that Bush is strong because he’s ruthless and has lots of money, and therefore if the Democrats are also ruthless and raise lots of money, they can beat him. This ignorance is compounded by the fact that many Deanies seem to exist in a isolated cultural milieu in which everybody is secular, socially liberal, and antiwar. They can’t fathom why those things might hurt Dean in a general election because they don’t ever talk to or read anybody who thinks differently.

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As I’ve been saying for a while, this is not a 50-50 nation:

The missing exit polls for the 2002 mid-term elections have finally been released and they offer strong evidence that the country is not as politically polarized as generally alleged. Rather, the national consensus has been shifting steadily to the right.

The Voter News Service, a media consortium that interviewed thousands of voters as they left the polls, didn’t deliver its results on Election Night last year because of computer errors and other glitches. After some scrubbing for suspect numbers in individual states, the surveys paint a picture of a country that is not nearly as divided on a political knife-edge as conventional wisdom has it. In the 2000 presidential and House races, America may have been split exactly down the middle. But in 2002, Republicans opened up a gap. The GOP won the national vote for House seats by 51% to 46% and voters who identified themselves as “conservative” increased to 34% from 30%.

So why was the 2000 presidential election so close? Because of the last-minute DUI revelation, which sent undecided voters into the Gore column by a 3-1 margin. Ordinarily they would have opted for the challenger, Bush, by a 3-1 margin. That the Democrats couldn’t win the presidency in a time of peace and prosperity, with an incumbent vice president heading the ticket, despite the last-minute DUI revelation, is very telling.

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Now Dean’s leading in South Carolina. And it’s a post-spider-hole poll.

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Al-Jazeera’s online polls can be counted on to show a uniformly anti-American, pro-terrorist result. But, since Saddam’s capture, the facade has begun to crack, as you can see from their recent online poll results.

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Democrats have some interesting comments about the new LoTR movie.

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