[putupon]

Números grandes, Jorge. Let's all have a taco picnic and celebrate.

[hedgie]

Nice to see the economy number swing in GWB's favor. Hopefully, continued strong performance by the economy will help him along.

[dagnabbit]

¡Que Bueno!

[freedom1st]

According to CNN political analyst Bill Schneider, it's good news for Bush but nothing to indicate a definite victory in November.

After GW wins reelection in November with 55% of the vote, Bill Schneider will say that there's nothing to indicate that GW will win a recount.

[aomagrat]

Wait until he extends the "ugly looking gun" ban.

[Huck]

Jimmy Carter, who started out his 1980 re-election campaign on a high of 56

That's hard to believe.

[maestro]

MERRY (Orthodox) CHRISTMAS!!

:-)

[G.Mason]

I read the following yesterday.

"This election is shaping up to be the President's approval ratings. Keep an eye on the [GWB's] solid negative number, because that is about what Dean would get if he is the nominee."

Sorry ....... for the life of me, I can't remember where

[jerod]

Jimmy Carter, who started out his 1980 re-election campaign on a high of 56 percent also lost his campaign, due in large part to the Iranian hostage crisis.

His rating was about 27% in the summer of 1979 and he wasn't even expected to win the nomination if he ran.

Then the Iranian Hostage crises occurs, and his ratings shot up. Like any good RAT, he took advantage of other peoples misfortune to try and retain power.

Fortunately the American people saw through it, and voted him out resoundingly. Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Road Island and West Virginia were the only states that voted for Jimmy, and of course the District of Columbia .

The defining moment was the rescue mission attempt. Jimmy had been playing the "Rose Garden strategy", he claimed he couldn't leave Washington to campaign because the Hostage Crises was too important. Immediately after the rescue mission failed, he started campaigning.

The Carter years produced the first co-presidency, because Roslyn Carter was basically running the show back then.

[ODDITHER]

Can you even imagine having that little wood pecker as our president? We would have to sit through press conferences instead of one. The second one would be called for damage control - for whatever stupid things he said in the first press conference.

[PMCarey]

Jimmy Carter, who started out his 1980 re-election campaign on a high of 56 percent also lost his campaign, due in large part to the Iranian hostage crisis.

???? I sure don't remember Carter looking like a colossus going into the 1980 campaign. In fact it was Carter's weakness that prompted Teddy Kennedy to jump into the race. I suppose you can get away with this kind of revisionist history if your audience is younger than say, 30.

[uncbob]

That's the good news

The Bad news is if he is far enough ahead he won't worry about losing conservative votes with his immigration policies