| Colorado's evangelicals likely to stick with a GOP candidate
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Precisely at 11 a.m., the drums thundered, the guitars clanged and the sound of an 11-piece rock band boomed across the auditorium. The thousands in the audience jumped to their feet. Spotlights perched high in the rigging overhead scanned the crowd. Ten giant video screens displayed close-ups of the singers' faces. Young people danced and hopped up and down in front of the stage and in the aisles. With arms waving, they sang along, repeating the final line of one song over and over: .
Not Win-Win-Win
Not only does their gubernatorial candidate, Phil Angelides, trail Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger heavily in the polls, but there is growing concern that if Angelides does not inspire Democrats to vote, low party turnout could seal the fate of other vulnerable Democrats — and even left-leaning ballot propositions. [E.A.] As blogger Steve Smith has noted, this may require a reevaluation of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's decision to support an incumbent-protection gerrymander of California's House districts--as opposed to a less-safe line-drawing that would have let Democrats capitalize on a "wave" of support. It turns out that California's Democrats are so weak there probably won't be a wave! Pelosi brilliantly anticipated this pathetic failure. Old CW on Pelosi: Weak, short-sighted hack.
Transcript : Karl Rove, Chris Van Hollen on 'FNS'
Well, first of all, taxes and spending, because this current Congress has got a lousy record on both. The Republicans, though, also have to begin to deal in a very visible and vocal and powerful way with issues that people care about and talk about around the kitchen table like, "What about the cost of my health care? How can my kid go to college? What do we do to create more jobs and energy in America?" And I'm confident, seeing our candidates around the country and seeing our presidential candidates, that there's a willingness to engage in these issues which heretofore Republicans have got good ideas about but have not been willing to talk about. WALLACE: Congressman Van Hollen, have you heard anything from Mr. Rove there that scares you? DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN CHRIS VAN HOLLEN, D-MD.: No, I haven't.
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