Bush: If Democrats win, terrorists win
RHETORIC HEATS UP AS MORE CONTESTS GROW COMPETITIVE
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By Michael Abramowitz
THE WASHINGTON POST
10/31/2006
SUGAR LAND, Texas - President Bush said terrorists will win if Democrats win and impose their policies on Iraq, as he and Vice President Dick Cheney escalated their rhetoric yesterday in an effort to turn out Republican voters in next week's midterm elections.
Democratic operatives continued to broaden the field of races they think are competitive enough to merit last-minute investments, as the party's House election committee launched ads in typically conservative districts of Kentucky, Nebraska and Nevada. In the Senate battle, new public and private polls indicated very tight races in Tennessee, Virginia and Missouri, the last of which is shaping up as possibly the country's tightest contest.
Faced with potential GOP defeat in both chambers, Bush and Cheney aimed to avert that by convincing voters that they cannot risk giving the opposition party any power in Washington.
"However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses," Bush told a raucous crowd of some 5,000 GOP partisans packed in the arena at an earlier stop at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro.
Democrats reacted sharply to the latest White House attacks. Senate Democratic leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) said Bush "resorted to the same tired old partisan attacks in a desperate attempt to hold onto power."
Cheney, meanwhile, said in an interview with Fox News that he thought insurgents are timing their attacks to influence the American elections.
After his rally in Georgia, Bush flew here to stump for the GOP candidate trying to succeed former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who won his seat by 14 points two years ago before resigning amid the Jack Abramoff scandal.
Democrats, meanwhile, think they have the luxury of competing outside their usual strongholds, including in Kentucky. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is now funding ads in the state's 3rd District, where challenger John Yarmuth is running against Rep. Anne Northup, the Republican incumbent.
In Georgia, Bush is trying to play a little bit of offense this week, appearing on behalf of GOP candidates in two of the few Democratic districts where Republicans have an opportunity to pick up a seat.
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