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

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (389010)	4/9/2003 5:23:37 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

MEMEORY LANE for THE GOP: Bush, father of the president, enjoyed an 89 percent approval rating the week after a U.S.-led coalition evicted Iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait in a stunning four-day ground war. But 16 months later, the elder Bush's approval ratings had plummeted to 32 percent, setting the stage for his defeat in 1992. "Everybody is watching to see if Bush goes the way of his father — from 90 percent to toast in barely a year," said William Schneider, a political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute. Fifty-five percent of those surveyed by Gallup (in January 2003) said Bush was not spending enough time on the economy, which remains afflicted with the worst unemployment in almost nine years, a three-year stock market decline that has cost stockholders almost $6 trillion, and economic growth of barely 1.5 percent over the last seven quarters. Only 36 percent of respondents said they would "definitely vote" for Bush in 2004.