Antiwar divisions could hurt democrats in 2008.

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Cooperation between the Democratic Party and antiwar activists helped the "Party of the Street" in the 2006 congressional elections, but the upcoming presidential election could see this support wane because of divisions among the antiwar activists, say researchers at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Florida, Gainesville.

"Many Democratic candidates take the support of antiwar activists for granted," maintains Fabio Rojas, an assistant in the Department of Sociology at IU. "Growing disillusion with the Democrats might lead antiwar voters to stay home on election day, tipping the scales in favor of Republicans in close races."

Rojas and Michael T. Heaney, a UF...