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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (24892)	10/31/2008 5:56:40 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Re: "McCain is too close to Bush in the eyes of those who hate Bush..." (You'd think they were from the same political Party or something... <g>) One interesting thing I came across recently: So many of the Bush apologists will say "yeah, he's down in the low to mid-twenties in approval rate... down below even where Nixon was right before his resignation... but Congress' rating is even lower, in the teens!" Which is all quite true. But those folks should look a little deeper into the polls where those approval/disapproval ratings come from (same questions have been asked in exactly the same way for decades now....) After asking the public how it feels about Congress, they ask them how they feel about generic (no-name) Democrat Congressmen, and how they feel about generic Republican Congressmen --- and this year there has been (at various times) between an eight point and a twelve point spread between the two. (Let's call it around a 'ten' point spread....) And it's to the disadvantage of the GOP (they are disliked about ten points more than the Dems are....) So... ANY GOP nominee this year (not just McCain) would have been heading into some pretty stiff headwinds. It's not just Mac and not just Dubbya that are bearing the brunt of the public's opprobrium. Though I believe that Clinton's recent comment to the effect that "Bush had shot an Uzi's worth of bullets into McCain's campaign" is pretty true to the effect. Bush shot McCain out of the water in 2000... and he did it again in 2008. (And a lot of other Republicans, too.) Incidentally, one other factoid I came across: The US has had ONE and ONLY ONE graduate of the US Naval Academy to become President.... It was Jimmy Carter. McCain would make the SECOND. (Though, of course, he graduated right near the very bottom of his class, and Carter near the top of his --- not sure what that implies. :-)