>>Which makes what Bush had to do even harder.<<
Agreed. And whoever comes next is gonna have a hard time too - the country is really split.
I agree that there is a split in the country. However, I won't go so far as to say it is the worst it has ever been. Geez, we had a civil war. You can't get much more of a split than that. Also we've yet to see members of Congress physically attacking each other which we've also seen in the past. The appearance that we are split in terrible ways is promulgated by the old guard main stream media because they have lost their ability to define unity of thought. With the rise of alternative news sources we are finally free to enjoy that split rather than suffer from the pronouncements of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather et al.
After the Nov 8, 2006 mass liberal hate-fest, this will be less of a problem, as the loudest-barking moonbats will finish off the remaining credibility of the left once and for all.