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"&amp;quot;We are going to have a Democratic president,&amp;quot; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told me this week, &amp;quot;The next generation is impatient. Andvthere&amp;#x27;s just no way a Republican is going to win right now.&amp;quot; Across the blogosphere, the mainstream media, and, apparently, Capitol Hill, the &amp;quot;idea&amp;quot; story this week has been just that: Republicans are dead as a doornail. John McCain can&amp;#x27;t possibly win this year because, well, he&amp;#x27;s a Republican, and the Republican &amp;quot;brand&amp;quot; is radioactive. On the face of it, this statement appears to be true: Democratic candidates have been sweeping special elections in districts where any Republican with a basic grasp of English and most of his teeth should have trounced them. In Washington, the Republicans are depressed: all signs point to a Democratic sweep of the Congressional races this year. And McCain, for all of his &amp;quot;maverick&amp;quot; appeal, still can&amp;#x27;t raise any money or get the base excited. It should be a sweep for Barack Obama and all Democrats, right? Right? I still worry. As a Democrat, I&amp;#x27;ve lived through more losses than wins in my life, and I&amp;#x27;m uneasy about the idea of a &amp;quot;slam-dunk&amp;quot; year. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the nauseating idea of Clinton supporters &amp;quot;protesting&amp;quot; the DNC rules committee meeting on Saturday, threatening to put petulance above practicality. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s the fact that the Republicans have gotten so good at running such nasty campaigns. Maybe it&amp;#x27;s that I&amp;#x27;m still not really sure how well American voters understand that the mess we&amp;#x27;re in is so overwhelming, and that they&amp;#x27;ll vote based on vague, silly notions the way they always do. Whatever happens in November, I have to admit that watching the crew that&amp;#x27;s run this country aground for the last eight years get its comeuppance makes me feel pretty gleeful. The Republicans spent decades to consolidate their party and their power. The fact that Bush &amp;amp; Co. managed to wreck all of that work in just eight years says to me that their ideas weren&amp;#x27;t all that great in the first place. Do you think any Republicans can win in this political climate? &amp;amp;#8212;Caille P.S. The 30-second poll: What matters to you in this election? Is it the economy? The war? Or something else? Tell us, and we&amp;#x27;ll publish the results in an upcoming issue of Glamour."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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