WILL THE ’06 ELECTIONS BE LIKE ’02? The Hotline blog thinks they might.

UPDATE: James Somers emails:

If you’d asked me (and you didn’t) three months ago, I would have said ’06 is looking like ’94. But it is indeed heading towards the ’02 paradigm now instead. The “domestic spying” issue reinforces this. I expect CNN, CBS, etc, will be too frightened to actually commission a poll on the NSA wiretap issue. They know what they’ll find – a solid majority of Americans is going to have no problem with what the Administration has done here. In fact, they probably already assumed it was doing exactly this sort of thing.

But for some people, it’s always 1972 – you know, back when George McGovern won in a landslide because Americans were anti-Vietnam war.

Yes.