By Michael Schwartz
Asia Times
"What's at stake
As in 2004, there is no mystery about what the voters think when it comes to this election: it is a referendum on Bush administration policies in which unhappiness over the war comes first, second and third.
And this is why, no matter what the Democrats do afterward, the 2006 mid-term elections whose results we will all be anxiously watching on Tuesday are so important. If the Democrats prevail, however narrowly, against a world of massively gerrymandered seats, Republican finances, blitzes of dirty ads, the presidential "bully pulpit" and well-planned campaigns of voter suppression, US - as well as world - public opinion will interpret it as a repudiation of Bush administration war policy.
And this will become a mandate for those who oppose these policies to speak and act ever more forcefully. With or without Democratic Party leadership, this added momentum might even make a difference."
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