Why Bush is teetering

[T Bone]

History and demographics suggest the president could wind up a loser.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/19/INGJ68OT8L1.DTL

FOUR REASONS BUSH IS AN UNDERDOG (1) A self-described "war president" needs to be winning the war at re- election time. U.S. troops are bogged down in Iraq, and the death toll is growing. (2) Bush and his party represent a declining demographic. The Republican Party is a white, male, Anglo-Saxon Protestant party, as photos from its convention show. (3) Re-election is not the presidential norm. Only 11 presidents have served eight consecutive years. President Reagan was the last Republican president to be re-elected. (4) Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000. The three presidents who failed the first time around to win the popular vote did not return to the White House.


-by -Martin F. Nolan, a veteran political reporter, is a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/19/INGJ68OT8L1.DTL



good article, especially for us optimists. ;-)

[the Kelly Gang]

1. considering his father convincingly won a war and got the boot

I'm still convinced he has NOTHING to run on..this future terrorist threat works on only the most moronic..people want to know about here and now..jobs the economy and not about a war that's being lost

[snowbear]

2. yeah.. really

A self-described "war president" needs to be winning the war at re- election time.
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... I like that! :yourock:

[T Bone]

3. Democrats who were losing a war had the decency to QUIT

note how the article points out that Democrats who were losing a war had the decency to QUIT before the election.

truman in korea
Johnson in vietnam

bush should have already quit the race.

[grace0418]

4. Oh, didn't you hear?

He's the PEACE president now, oh wait, no... he switched back to the war president.

Now, who was the flip-flopper again?

[Cronus Protagonist]

5. He's out of touch with the American people

It's as simple as that.

And he's a liar. Why is he afraid to come clean with the American people? I thought he was supposed to be on our side! What on earth can he be hiding behind all that secrecy? I just can't trust him.


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