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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (167456)	8/3/2001 12:04:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Clinton never did well with voters? He beat Bush 41 by over 5%, and Dole by over 8%. I'd say that's well enough. Certainly better than Bush 43, who didn't even win the popular vote. I'd say that job approval tracks whatever political or economic issue is uppermost in people's minds at the time. Sometimes this is economic, sometimes it's not. Remember how Bush 41's approval ratings soared after the Gulf War, then crashed as the economy went sour? Fact remains that Clinton's approval ratings were consistently in the 60's while Bush 43's are in the 50's. As for Dems having a hard time breaking 50%, you can say the same about Republicans -- last guy to do it was named Reagan, I believe. Everybody agrees that Bush 43 is a nice guy. But he seems to be running a kind of semi-detached Presidency. One curious thing when you look at the polls is that the number of people who answer "Don't know" when asked about him is actually rising. People haven't seen enough of him to form an opinion.