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Bush Re-Election Sunnier Than Father's
Newsday ^ | January 23, 2004, 2:41 PM EST | NANCY BENAC, AP

Posted on 01/23/2004 11:58:58 AM PST by A_Niceguy_in_CA

WASHINGTON -- A political snapshot of America taken from the White House window couldn't look more different for President Bush than what his father saw from the same vantage on a cold January day 12 years ago.

In hard statistics and a harder-to-define sense of how the country is doing, today's view is one Bush's father could only have envied as he entered the re-election year of 1992. And, likewise, the public's impression of this President Bush is much kinder than was the assessment of his father at the same point in his presidency.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; bush41; gwb2004
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1 posted on 01/23/2004 11:58:58 AM PST by A_Niceguy_in_CA
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
When is the last possible date for Hitlery to register to run? Has it passed?
2 posted on 01/23/2004 12:12:41 PM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
Bush wins Florida, Texas, Penn & much of the South & smaller states.

The Dem wins California, New York, Illinois(?), Mass & some other NE states.

Battlegound states = Ohio, Michigan & West Virginia where the ecomomy continues to spiral downward. OH & MI both full of electoral votes.

3 posted on 01/23/2004 12:12:51 PM PST by gdani (Have you played Atari today?)
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To: Caipirabob
No.......she can wait until the convention if she wants to.
4 posted on 01/23/2004 12:13:23 PM PST by Howlin
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
it's the trend lines that are key in politics, said Charlie Black, a veteran GOP strategist and former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Still, Black said, there are reasons for Republicans not to be overconfident this January.

"I'd rather be in our shoes than theirs, but it's also true that the country's very closely divided on a party basis, and if both sides consolidate their bases, it's going to be a close race," he said. "The president has an advantage, but it's not a huge advantage."

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In fact, the economy has lost about 2.3 million jobs under Bush, the worst job creation record of any president since Herbert Hoover.

Bush is ticking off his base on two fronts: 1) out-of-control deficit spending; and 2) a radical amnesty plan to legalize millions of illegal immigrants and to hugely increase immigration levels. It makes me ill that Bush is proposing the latter when millions of Americans have lost their jobs.

If Bush and Rove think that they will win this November in a walk anyway, I guess they won't lose any sleep over the disaffection of many in the Republican base.

But if Black is being serious, and the 2004 election is expected to be a cliff-hanger like 2000 was, Bush had better think long and hard about the problems his spending and amnesty plan are causing among people who would otherwise consider him the obvious choice in an election against a Democrat.

5 posted on 01/23/2004 12:13:59 PM PST by Map Kernow ("I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Caipirabob
Well she can't run for the nomination anymore. But if nobody gets a clean win the rules for who can get nominated losen up with each floor vote at the convention that doesn't name a winner. So technically speaking the last day she can become a candidate is the day they declare their nominee, but it's hghly unlikely at this point.
6 posted on 01/23/2004 12:14:44 PM PST by discostu (are you in the pocket of the moment)
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To: discostu; Caipirabob
But if Dean does real well in New Hampshire and is leading in the polls in the South; and Wesley Clark bombs in New Hampshire, Hillary could be drafted next week to enter the race to save the Democrat party (and the nation) from the certain doom of a Dean nomination.
Clark could announce that he is instructing all his delegates to vote for Hillary at the convention, and thus a vote for Clark is actually a vote for Hillary.
Perhaps this scenario has been a long planned option. That would explain the Clintons' money raising activities on behalf of Clark and the number of Clinton operatives in Clark's campaign organization.
7 posted on 01/23/2004 12:24:59 PM PST by bayourod ( Dean's anti-terrorism plan: "treat people with respect and they will treat you with respect"12/1/03)
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To: Map Kernow
I live in California, in a small farming community in the Sacramento Valley. Over half the residents of our town are migrant workers and their families. The flood of immigrants coming into our state is of concern to me, but I also see the reality that if we rounded them all up and threw them across the border, the ag industry in California would be decimated. I'm not thrilled with Bush's immigration proposal, but I'm also not going to kick him to the side of the road over one or two issues.

If Bush loses, it will be more the fault of strident narrowminded "conservatives" who blow one or two issues way out of proportion compared to the bigger picture. Fortunately, this "base" you say is being driven away amounts to a very small proportion of the electorate.

8 posted on 01/23/2004 12:26:20 PM PST by My2Cents ("Failure is not an option.")
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To: bayourod
I think all the deadlines for the primary ballots have expired. The best they can do is muddle through an obnoxious primary season and bring her in as a late ringer during the convention. Still a possibility. I'm kind of hoping for it, there hasn't been an interesting Dem or Rep national convention since 1968, and even that one was lame inside the building and was only rescued by the ritiualistic beating of hippies outside the building.
9 posted on 01/23/2004 12:34:35 PM PST by discostu (are you in the pocket of the moment)
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To: Map Kernow
Bush is ticking off his base

He is ticking you off and you are not the base, no matter your delusions of grandeur.

Also, Bush inherited a recession which was only worsened by the neglect of Bill Clinton who played patty cake with osama bin ladin.

I am not surprised that you would forget 9/11.

10 posted on 01/23/2004 12:35:59 PM PST by Dane
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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
The first Bush's recession also lasted eight months and officially ended in March 1991, well before the election year. But unemployment didn't peak until 15 months later, and the recession's end wasn't announced until December 1992.

The recession on Bush I's watch ended 18 months before the election in 1992, but the media (and Bush I) allowed Clinton to get away "it's the economy, stupid!" and "this is the worst economy since the great depression!"

Bush I surrounded himself with negative people (Dick Darman) too willing to accept the Demo view of the world. Bush I was also the antithesis of a "visionary" -- I really feel he was happy to see the end of his presidency. Clinton didn't win; Bush was fired.

This George W. Bush is a visionary and a man of much more principle than his father -- his father would have been pushed around by a Paul O'Neil. GWB put his programs on the table when he ran against the boob, Gore, and he has the temerity to push for the passage of that program in the 4 years that followed. Who knew he would inherit the biggest market meltdown since the great depression, and the most severe corporate scandals in recent history, and a pretty severe recession, and the terrorist attacks on 9-11-01? Thank Bill Clinton for all those challenges... all those cans kicked down the road... Bill Clinton's famous "Bridge to the 21st Century"!

11 posted on 01/23/2004 12:36:59 PM PST by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: discostu; bayourod; Howlin
Well, considering what the rats pulled in 2000, I don't put anything beyond them for our nations highest office. We can't let ourselves get comfortable and then caught unaware. If Guiliani is going to challange her for her Senate seat next term, perhaps she's waiting to stick her mug in after the deadline for CFR kicks in. Who knows, except that you can't turn your back on her?

My evil plan continues unabbated...

12 posted on 01/23/2004 12:37:47 PM PST by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Dane

RONALD REAGAN - THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR

GEORGE W. BUSH- THE GREAT PRETENDER


13 posted on 01/23/2004 12:39:40 PM PST by David Noles
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To: Caipirabob
I don't fear her running for pres. She shares all the unelectable traits of Dean Kerry and Gore: she's a mutant looking shrill incredibly boring person.
14 posted on 01/23/2004 12:39:51 PM PST by discostu (are you in the pocket of the moment)
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To: My2Cents
I live in California

So do I. I don't live in an ag community, but I do live in a suburban area where people have illegals mow their lawns, do construction, etc. I hear the same economic arguments you're using and I think they're bogus. The economy isn't going to tank if we have to figure another way to cut costs of delivering goods and services than importing a lot of cheap labor illegally.

If Bush loses, it will be more the fault of strident narrowminded "conservatives" who blow one or two issues way out of proportion compared to the bigger picture.

Yeah, imagine those @$$holes getting all upset over spending money we don't have, or rewarding people who came here in defiance of our laws, and often break more than the immigration laws once they're here? What are they thinking? Don't they realize it's worth it to spend ourselves into penury, and to turn our country into "Mexico del Norte" just to make sure a Democrat isn't elected??? (Instead of someone who just occasionally resembles a Democrat...I mean, for expediency's sake....)

Fortunately, this "base" you say is being driven away amounts to a very small proportion of the electorate.

Why, good! Who cares what they think anyway then, hunh? As long as they number less than, say, a couple of hundred voters in a state like, say, Florida, they can go stick enchiladas where the sun don't shine, right?

So just pour your contempt on them from now 'til Election Day, and sit back and watch GW get re-elected! WOOO-HOOO, MARGE!!!!!!!!

15 posted on 01/23/2004 12:41:03 PM PST by Map Kernow ("I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds
Don't forget Perot.
16 posted on 01/23/2004 12:43:15 PM PST by CasearianDaoist
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To: gdani
I don't think the Dems will California. It's just a hunch but I think Bush takes California.
17 posted on 01/23/2004 12:48:15 PM PST by Solson (Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Von Goethe)
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To: Map Kernow
Yet you think the TRUE amnesty plans offered by the Dem candidates are better?
18 posted on 01/23/2004 12:48:56 PM PST by Solson (Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Von Goethe)
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To: Dane
He is ticking you off and you are not the base, no matter your delusions of grandeur.

Well, I voted for him four years ago, in the CA primary and the general election. That doesn't make me part of his "base"? Oh, OK...

Also, Bush inherited a recession which was only worsened by the neglect of Bill Clinton who played patty cake with osama bin ladin.

Yeah, uh-hunh...I don't like Clinton, recessions, Osama bin Laden...and your point is..?

I am not surprised that you would forget 9/11.

I did? When did I tell you that? I'm going to forget 9/11 when a buddy I went to high school and college with died in the North Tower, you presumptuous hack?

No, buddy, I haven't "forgotten" 9/11, or the fact that lax immigration enforcement allowed the 9/11 hijackers to stay in the US and execute their terrorism. That's a primary reason why I'm disgusted by Bush's amnesty proposal.

19 posted on 01/23/2004 12:49:45 PM PST by Map Kernow ("I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Map Kernow
I hear the same economic arguments you're using and I think they're bogus.

I think they're bogus too, if what we're using cheap immigrant labor for is to mow our lawns and care for our children while we're working 80 hours a week to keep that Lexus. I'm talking about essential labor in California's farming industry. It isn't a matter of figuring out a way to cut costs of delivering goods and services. When I start seeing white high school kids spending their summers on tomato harvestors in the fields around my town, rather than hanging out at the mall, then we can talk about running those who now do that job out of the country.

Your hysteria about "Norte California" is precisely the kind of twisted perspective I've come to expect from the extremist Pat Buchanan right. You base your political perspective on some fear of a great horde of little brown people overrunning your community. Get a grip.

Why, good! Who cares what they think anyway then

Precisely. I certainly don't.

20 posted on 01/23/2004 12:51:38 PM PST by My2Cents ("Failure is not an option.")
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