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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- With U.S. midterm elections less than two weeks away, Republican campaigns have been advised to avoid talking about Iraq while Democrats are embracing it.
Polls of all varieties have been showing growing unhappiness with the toll and cost of the war, now 3 1/2 years old, the Washington Post said.
As an example of how campaign strategies have shifted based on the polls, this week in New Hampshire, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., told interviewers candidates should steer away from the war.
"The challenge is to get Americans to focus on pocketbook issues, and not on the Iraq and the terror issue," Frist said.
Meanwhile, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told the Post the war was now a campaign tool.
"We are telling our candidates not to be afraid to talk about it," Schumer said. "Who would have thought two years ago the Democrats would be affirmatively putting ads on television about Iraq and Republicans would be avoiding it?"
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