When Bob Dole s numbers improve, the congressional numbers for the Republicans improve. It could be won or lost on whether the Democrats succeed on making this a referendum on Newt Gingrich. Well, in terms of the early money, the AFL-CIO, this outside money really made a big difference for Democrats. In terms of party money, Republicans have significantly more, and that will be interesting to watch whether President Clinton decides to sort of unleash some of or divert some of the money that was going on for his reelection campaign over into the congressional races. We ve never seen that it happen before.
Incumbents tend to be greedy and want to run up the score.
He s loaning a fund-raiser, but Democrats would rather see the cash. I think if you put five or ten million bucks into the House, five or ten million into the Senate, uh, you would see Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle doing back flips across the Capitol grounds.