Dubya on the Campaign Trail
The C-Student-in-Chief is on a whirlwind tour of tight Senate races, looking to turn that pesky 1-seat Republican minority into a majority. One key matchup is Missouri, where the GOP would love to erase the stigma of John Ashcroft’s defeat by a dead man two years ago. Another is Minnesota, where Republican challenger Norm Coleman is trying to make a name for himself as something more than the person who was defeated in the governor’s race by a professional wrestler. Mindful of his domestic baggage, Bush used today’s radio address to sympathize with the common man (“the economy is not as good as we’d like it to be”) while promising vigorous new steps to protect workers’ 401(k) savings, just as soon as he gets a Senate he can work with.
