PURPLE DEMOCRATS (CONT)

"If a Democrat like Gene Taylor [of Mississippi] votes against tax cuts or the president's efforts to cut the deficit, say, 15 times, that's a TV ad: Please stop voting at Nancy Pelosi's direction. Please vote your district," says Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, an anti-tax group.

"His district thinks he goes to Washington and fights people like Pelosi and the San Francisco liberals. These Democrats [in conservative districts] are fooling themselves if they think no one is watching," he adds.

But Democrats say it could be GOP moderates that suffer in midterm elections, unless they join Democrats in opposing the Bush agenda.

"The only way we have any power is if we stick together. We have to make the Republican moderates take the tough votes, and then use their votes against them," says Brendan Daly, a spokesman for the Democratic leadership.

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