Three factors make the military vote more in play for Democrats this year than in 2000, he says: the Iraq war, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's tense relationship with the Army, and Bush's limited ability as an incumbent to make sweeping promises akin to Senator Kerry's pledge to add 40,000 new troops and relieve an overstretched force.I wouldn't give this 100% credence, as it is filled with a million qualifiers, but it is worth looking at.
"The military as a whole supports the Iraq war," Mr. Feaver says, noting a historical tendency of troops to back the commander in chief in wartime. "But you can go across the military and find pockets where they are more ambivalent," he says, especially among the National Guard and Reserve. "The war has not gone as swimmingly as they thought, and that has caused disaffection.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004
The Soldier Vote
The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting article about how soldiers in the field may not be as 100% behind President Bush as previously thought.
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