A new Washington Post/Kaiser/Harvard poll of 1,200 registered voters shows that Governor Bush has won over the minds of the voters on economic issues definitively. They have rejected Gore's scaremongering. Bush's tax cut is not a risky scheme, they say. Thirty one percent said a large tax cut would help the economy, only 26% said it would hurt.

More than half of those surveyed identified either taxes or economic concerns as their top two voting issues. Now, Gore's attacks on Bush's plan for partial privatization of Social Security have not caused Americans to turn against Bush's plan even when they're warned by pollsters of these supposed, potential risks. And despite Gore's demagoguery, plus a massive ad campaign by the DNC, Bush's Social Security plan enjoys majority support. Fifty-six percent in this survey say they favor it. And listen to this: Only 4 in 10 credit Al Gore for the prosperity we currently enjoy. Bush's father, former president George Bush, actually gets more credit than Gore does.

George W. Bush is winning on the issues. The Democrats are already trying to deny that. They're claiming that any appeal Bush may have is merely personality-based and this is a pre-emptive strike to try to blunt his attempt to implement his policies once he wins. It's a vain attempt because there's one thing that liberals can't stop and that's a mandate.