What Bush Must Do

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  MO and OH are actually quite conservative on social issues, it is social issues that have swung both of these states congressional delgations and state legislatures from being solidly Democratic in the 80s to GOP majority today.

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   Bush is no Reagan, the actions of the last couple of months makes this quite clear. Where Reagan knew how to communicate with the average voter, had a solid hard core base of support and took his message to the people, Bush seems to be in a bubble informed by the WSJ editorial pages and a few like minded publications. Bush also seems to be clueless at reaching outside of his geographical base, while Reagan was constantly on the stump in many different regions, such as Boston to Dallas, Baltimore to Chicago when he took his case to the people.

   The actions of Bush in the last 2 months has severely damaged him in the GOP base. Die hard conservatives I know are disgusted with his spending and immigration plan, all say they will still vote for him in Nov, but a very lax kind of support. Bush has to repair the damage he has done to the conservative base first, and that is somthing Reagan never had to deal with.