Bummer. So what does that say about Bush's 2.46% reelection win?
If the RATS would have put up someone half-way normal and decent, GWB would have gotten destroyed handily. The RATS are their own worst enemy and lose because they put up circus clowns, not because the GOP puts up good candidates.
Many of us held our nose in this election and are already smelling the BS and garbage.
Let's not kid oursleves- Bush's margin of victory wasn't big. We still have a lot of work to do.
As for FDR, the Democratic myth that he was a widly popular President is mere fantasy. He won in a landslide over Hoover because of his optimistic outlook vs Hoover's noticeable lack of ideas. In 1936 the GOP ran what may have been their most inept candidate in party history and the voters overwhelmingly decided to continue with FDR. By 1940, things were different. In 8 years FDR had tripled taxes and accomplished absolutely nothing for private sector employment. Economically, the nation in 1940 was pretty much where it was in 1932, but with a much larger debt. FDR won in 1940 only after a late October pledge to "not send our boys into a foreign war". In 1944, few had realistic expectations that FDR would survive another term. The "let's not change horses mid-stream" theory carried the day for FDR, but the election was really between Truman and Dewey.