According to today's Times, GOP candidates facing tough races don't think President Bush's midterm election strategy of beating the national security drum relentlessly will help them:

"It just doesn’t help me; the things he says or does in my district don’t really help," said Representative Rob Simmons of Connecticut...

Representative Chris Chocola, Republican of Indiana, said the war in Iraq had not played a central role in his campaign. “I don’t think it will change the environment,” Mr. Chocola said.