That said, the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, which has been both compelling viewing and as dull as watching reality TV, has reported no movement since Reagan's death. Since Kerry wrapped up the nomination, both candidates have been scoring 43-48 and, on most days 44-46 - always within the poll's margin of error.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm
Perhaps they were worried that the president/child would look bad next to Reagan. Is it true that Reagan liked to receive policy suggestions in cartoon format?
> From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> I know Reagan was a master of timing, but his death
> was so timely from the
> GOP POV that I wonder if he got a little push.
> Consider:
>
> 1. Reagan's death switches the channel of national
> attention from the
> disgrace of Iraq to the golden memories of Ronnie's
> Morning in America.
>
> 2. The television screens are now filled with images
> of the military as it
> prefers to be seen -- spit 'n polish, solemn honor
> guards striking poses at
> national monuments instead of leering uniformed
> goons tormenting POWs at Abu
> Ghraib.
>
> 3. The paleo-conservatives and neocons have
> forgotten their differences and
> are now joined in a chorus of praise for the Gipper.
> E.g., check out Justin
> Raimondo's preposterous current column "The
> Reagan-Haters": "Amid the
> near-unanimity of the panegyrics for Ronald Reagan –
> emanating from both the
> left and the right – the few dissenters stand out in
> their utter
> wrongheadedness."
>
> 4. Enhancing the value of Reagan's demise at this
> particular moment, the
> nation was already primed for a patriotic sob fest
> because of the 60th
> anniversary of D-Day.
>
> In short, QED, somebody pulled the plug on Ronnie.
>
> Carl
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