Rove's Early Warning:

"And, yes, the core questions must be asked: Are we really safer now than we were five years ago? Has the Iraq war, as organized and prosecuted by the administration, made us stronger or weaker? Do we feel more secure knowing the heck of a job our government did during Hurricane Katrina? Do we have any confidence that the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies will clean up their act if Washington remains under the sway of one-party government?"

It befuddles me that the Democratic Party has been so incompetent about asking those questions. Kerry fumbled the ball so many times on so many things, but this was the big one. Security is the most important thing on the radar and will be for a long time, probably this whole generation. If the Dems lose this now, they will be out of power for a long time. You have to tie the question of feeling safer with competence (Iraq, Katrina, Domestic spying?). That will equal a Dem victory.