[oceanview]

well with that approach, Bush was doomed from the start. He should have resigned the presidency on 9/12 then, if only 100% perfection is acceptable to the electorate after 8 years of 0% perfection by Clinton. And at some point, if he finds that attitude is prevalent amongst the electorate as the election draws near, he ought to tell them point blank what fools they are. If he's going to go down, go down firing and telling the truth.

[Ichneumon]

well with that approach, Bush was doomed from the start.

Only if those sort of people outnumber the ones who would instead be more inclined to vote for President Bush in such a situation. I don't know if they do or not.

My only point was that another domestic terrorist attack would affect different people in different ways, the result would not *only* be increased support for the President, since some people would react to it by holding him responsible for not stopping it.