What seems to be going the strongest for Bush is that somehow he got this weird personal bonding with some large chunk of the US population in the period immediately following 9/11, which they do not seem to want to give up on and which just gives him a hard base.
OTOH, at the end of the first Gulf War, his father had a favorable poll rating of 91 percent... Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 10:40 AM Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Another Poll
> Nathan:
> > I remember back on this list when everyone was confidently
> > saying Gore was a shoo-in; now the drumbeat seems to be of
> > Bush's inevitability.
> >
>
> Get the clue, Nathan. The ruling class has decided it is going to be
> Bush in 2004, and the media are simply informing the masses about that
> decision. Just as they did in 2000 and, for that matter in 1992.
>
> I would certainly prefer ANY Democrat to the current occupant of the
> White House - but evidently that ain't gonna happen.
>
> Wojtek
>
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