Category: David Kuo

I definitely think that Democratic challengers running for the House and Senate in red states can use Bush to their advantage if they are running against a GOP incumbent who has been a Bush rubber-stamp!

I will be using Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn who has been an overall Bush rubber-stamp as an example to illustrate this strategy as far as this post is concerned.

UPDATE: Jill is [attempting to] live blog the speech, and links to an article in Politico with details on Obama's plans - more after the break.

This has the potential for being a significant day for Barack Obama's campaign. Today in Zanesville he is announcing his support for expanding federal funding of religious organizations that provide social services - a broadening of the Bush administration's "Faith-Based and Community Initiatives" program that drew fire from civil libertarians and had to be implemented through executive orders rather than legislation due to opposition in Congress.

The Obama campaign has sent out a message from John DiIulio, who was the director of Bush's program in 2001, saying that "empirical evidence continues to show that local faith-based organizations can make a measurable civic difference" and that Obama's plan "reminds me of much that was best in both then Vice President Al Gore's and then Texas Governor George W. Bush's respective first speeches on the subject in 1999."