We'll start to have a sense later this week from polling whether Bush's full-scale offensive to politicize terror has had an impact. But, based on the New York Times article today, Bush is up against some intense initial skepticism -- at least in Colorado's Seventh Congressional District:
Mr. Bush has plenty of supporters in this Denver suburb and the surrounding cities, an evenly divided swing district that is a bellwether in the battle for control of the House. But interviews over the last three days here found Republicans, Democrats and independents all expressing degrees of skepticism about Mr. Bush’s motives in delivering a set of high-profile speeches on terrorism and the war in Iraq two months before Election Day.If this latest political ploy by Bush doesn't work, the GOP is in big, big trouble.
While it is too early to know whether the White House will succeed in winning over enough voters to make a difference in what is shaping up as a tight race, the interviews suggested that Mr. Bush’s newest efforts to cast his party as better suited than Democrats to defend the country had yet to overcome concern and anger among many voters about Iraq and a more generalized sense of discontent with the administration.
