On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:53 PM, Chuck wrote:
> Doug Henwood on Gas Prices and Bush's Popularity
> http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006henwood_gasprices
Hey, I even got a few secs on CNN <http://transcripts.cnn.com/ TRANSCRIPTS/0609/22/pzn.01.html>
DOUG HENWOOD, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, "LEFT BUSINESS OBSERVER": Certainly, there is a strong statistical relation between Bush's approval rating and the price of gas. Nine-eleven, approval spike...
VELSHI: Doug Henwood, editor of the liberal newsletter "The Left Business Observer,' has charted President Bush's popularity against gas prices. He calls the correlation he found uncanny, but he stopped short of calling it a conspiracy.
HENWOOD: More than three-quarters of the movement in Bush's approval rating can be explained by movements in the price of gas.
VELSHI: But it's not just the blogs.
A "USA Today"/Gallup poll last weekend asked voters: Do you think the Bush administration has deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall's elections? Forty-two percent said yes.