We'll know in about 24 hours, but I suspect one reason why the Dems are leading in the polls is because the DNC made a conscious effort to make this election a referendum on George Bush, and not about any other issue.
The Dems did something different, something unique and worked out a 50 state strategy VS. their old way of fighting where they were strong and finding a few weak GOP races. The Dems didn't need to make W the issue he did it himself. The fact that a majority of the people running don't want to be seen with him is very telling as well.
True conservatives are calling for people to vote Dem in order to end this one party rule, the lack of over sight and accountability.
Bill Clinton recently said "The Democratic Party has become the liberal and conservative party in America. If you want to be fiscally conservative, you've got to be for us. If you want to conserve natural resources, you've got to be for us," he said. "If you want a change of course in Iraq ... you've got to be for us."
It is the Dems who want smaller government, streamlined committees and federal government more accountable to its responsibilities. What we have had is an unprecedented growth in government size and payroll, no accountability and a consistent weakening of regulations and over sight.
That's a great short term strategy which may swing the election in more than a few races, but it's going to eventually backfire on them in two years because as soon as Bush isn't there as a whipping horse, people will start to see that the Dem's really don't have a plan for addressing most of the issues they're blasting Bush for.
Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."
Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.
Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds _ "I hope with a veto-proof majority," she added in an Associated Press interview Thursday.
All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.
To do that, she said, Bush-era tax cuts would have to be rolled back for those above "a certain level." She mentioned annual incomes of $250,000 or $300,000 a year and higher, and said tax rates for those individuals might revert to those of the Clinton era.
Still, polls showed John Kerry and Al Gore winning the past two elections in a lot of states which eventually voted for Bush, so I'd hold off on celebrating too early.
As long as they have an activist supreme court to suppress the vote, a debold machine a minibar key and an out come far from the exit polls, the elections will be suspect.