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

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (550491)	3/10/2004 11:50:52 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

<<We must remember that Bush's father trailed Mike Dukakis by 17 points in the months before the conventions. Until Bush Sr. ran negative ads, it seemed that the Massachusetts governor would be Reagan's successor. Kerry's bubble may prove to be just that fragile.>> The difference is Bush Sr. was mostly unknown in '88. He was the butt of all the VP jokes and widely considered a wimp. In '92 the public knew Bush and he ran against a pot-smoking, womanizing, draft-dodging Bill Clinton but he still couldn't beat him. Because '92 was about Bush and the public had given up on him. '04 is about Bush jr., it remains to be seen if the public has been given up on him or not. Steve Dietrich