Terri
11-19-2006, 05:34 PM
LA Times
WASHINGTON — Even as the first potential candidates move toward the starting line, the ground may be shifting in the 2008 race for the White House.
This month's midterm election highlighted cracks in an electoral landscape that had been unusually stable.
Democrats have been hurt by the inability of their recent presidential candidates to wage competitive campaigns across a vast swath of the country. But the party emerged from this year's vote confident that in 2008, it can compete on a much wider playing field — especially in the West and several states on the fringe of the South.
More (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-polmap19nov19,1,6527 324.story?coll=la-headlines-politics&ctrack=1&cset=true)
WASHINGTON — Even as the first potential candidates move toward the starting line, the ground may be shifting in the 2008 race for the White House.
This month's midterm election highlighted cracks in an electoral landscape that had been unusually stable.
Democrats have been hurt by the inability of their recent presidential candidates to wage competitive campaigns across a vast swath of the country. But the party emerged from this year's vote confident that in 2008, it can compete on a much wider playing field — especially in the West and several states on the fringe of the South.
More (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-polmap19nov19,1,6527 324.story?coll=la-headlines-politics&ctrack=1&cset=true)