[AntiGuv]

If your analysis is correct, then Bush's approval numbers wouldn't correlate at all with GOP success. Yet the rebound in his poll numbers seems to tack perfectly with the rebound in GOP numbers across the board.

In your rush to contradict me, you said it precisely backwards. If my analysis is correct, then Bush's approval numbers should correlate very closely with GOP success. So, the rebound in GWB's approval numbers should tack with a rebound in GOP numbers across the board.

[LS]

I was asking, not contradicting. But it's interesting: one Freeper argues that Bush is staying away and that's helping GOP candidates, and you argue that being associated with him is helping.

I don't think it's either. I think it's ISSUES, and the perception of th WoT as the central issue, combined with gas prices, has played a central role in the GOP's rebound.