The Democrats are becoming aggravated by their inability to distinguish between themselves and President Bush.

But today it was the clear that many Democrats had become convinced.

And the chief result of polarization is that the Democrats have become detached from antipolitical independent voters.

Many of us Democrats are becoming dismayed.

And except in Massachusetts and a few other liberal states, Democrats were becoming much harder to elect.

Our problem is that we Democrats have become boring.

But other conservatives worry that the Democrats are becoming too good at mastering the conservative vocabulary.

Even some Democrats, who once deplored soft money, have become accustomed to it.

Democrats have become well-practiced at playing the roles of critic and skeptic, particularly when the subject is the war in Iraq.