Time after time after time we've seen pictures of George and Laura Bush together and the love that they share is so obviously sincere. At the same time, there has been picture after picture of the bride of Frankenstein and her spouse with her either pushing him away or him dragging her with him. No affection, no respect, no glowing love evident at all.
I wonder how many voters wondered if she couldn't even stand him, why should the country have to tolerate him. Perhaps the thoughts were never even brought into the conscious mind but were back there, influencing people in the voting booth.
Remember what the President said just 6 days ago early on in his victory speech? "Laura is the Love of My Life. I'm glad you all love her too." :))
Someone got the idea to shoot some totally candid footage of George and Janet Voinovich taking their eveing walk in the city park. The footage was amazing.
They did the spot using the candid footage of them just walking in the park. The voice over announcer listed the Voinovich record of political succes, The voice over talked of how George took over a bankrupt Cleveland and restored it to prosperity. It talked about how Voinvovich had produced a rainy day fund while governor and then cut taxes. The kicker line was, "But George always says his most important accomplishment was convicing Janet to marry him." It seemed to say that George Voinvoich was a politician who put his wife and family first. How NOVEL!!!
The results were incredible. Women looked at the spot and reasoned... mean spirited Politicians don't have wives that look at them like Janet looks at George. And mean spirited Politicians don't look at their wives the way George looks at Janet. Woman reasoned that when the media trashed George Voinovich they were lying. The video of their walk was honest. It was not an act. It was not staged to show anyting other than their real relationship.
Many feel that spot elected George Voinovich.
That Voinovich spot and its result revealed how many voters make decisions. They many times do not vote on the complexity of major issues. Lots of voters do not undersand the complex policies that a president decides. Lots voters make their decisions based on human terms.
How a man is percvieved by his own wife and children is a good measure of a man. How he relates to his family also defines him.
Close elections are often decided by the following logic. The voter thinks.. I don't know what should be done about the economy. I don't know what we should do about foreign policy. I just know George W. Bush and his wife and kids are good people who care about each other. It is very likely that they care about me too. John Kerry and his family look like fakes. There is no love an warmth in them. If they don't really care for each other, how can they care for me.
Such feelings get the Bush lever punched.
Laura could be the same person she is... but if George did not relate to her the way he does, she would not help him at the polls. If Laura was nasty and George was himself it would not help him at the polls.
The logic is a couple that has the art of doing a family right will have a better chance at doing the nation right as well.
Let me put it this way ..