FLASHPOINT for Sep 27, 2006

Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 | 7:27 a.m.

That old saw about the Democrats never missing an oppor- tunity to miss an opportunity may be coming true. Or is it? National pundit Charlie Cook writes of "Shifting Sands" in a column this week: "If Republicans can replicate the environment of the past six weeks, their chances of holding onto their House majority are pretty good, and they will almost certainly retain their Senate majority. But if the spotlight shifts away from terrorism and declining gasoline prices and back onto the war in Iraq, where it was before, the House very likely goes back to the Democrats and the Senate gets much dicier." That nicely frames the national debate for the next six weeks - and it could determine the future of two congressional districts in Nevada, too.

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