On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> As I recall Bush the Elder also hit 90% approval ratings in some
> public opinion polls at the time of the Gulf War, for all the good
> that was to do him politically the following year. Probably one
> factor in the elder Bush's loss in 1992 was that his people took those
> polls a little too seriously.
It was certainly a factor in giving us Clinton -- it caused many more prominent names to drop out and decide to wait 4 years.
Michael
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