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Posted on 10/09/2003 6:00:10 AM PDT by DM1
With his job approval in New Hampshire at a low point, President George W. Bush will seek public support here tomorrow for his economic program and his $87 billion proposal to secure and rebuild Iraq.
Bush is scheduled to visit military personnel at a Pease International Tradeport hangar before heading off to a 20-minute address at the Center of New Hampshire to about 600 members of the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association.
A White House official said Bush will “talk about our nation’s top two priorities: the creation of jobs and improving the economy and winning the war on terror.”
Although the visit is taxpayer-funded official business — not campaign-funded — there are political overtones to any Presidential trip to an early primary or caucus state. New Hampshire is considered a potential swing state in the November 2004 election.
Sen. John E. Sununu said, “It’s no surprise that he’ll travel to a lot of the battleground states, states where the margins of victory for him in 2000 were less than 5 percent — states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Hampshire and New Mexico.”
“New Hampshire is . . . still problematic for him,” said pollster Dick Bennett of the Manchester-based American Research Group. In 2000, Bush narrowly won the state’s four electoral votes after losing its first-in-the-nation primary to Sen. John McCain.
A September ARG poll showed Bush with a 51 percent New Hampshire approval rating and 43 percent disapproval. The rating was his lowest since his 49 percent in ARG’s September 2001 poll, taken prior to the 9/11 attacks.
“I never believed President Bush would retain a 70 or 80 percent approval rating through the election,” said Rep. Charles Bass. “All these (Democratic) candidates have been tearing him down, and the press has been unfair in its coverage of the situation in Iraq.”
Sununu, Bass and Rep. Jeb Bradley are slated to fly with Bush from Washington to New Hampshire on Air Force One. Sen. Judd Gregg was expected to attend, but his plans are unclear after yesterday’s incident involving his wife (see Page One story).
Bush’s political opposition will be seen and heard tomorrow. State Democratic Chair Kathleen Sullivan expects party activists to demonstrate against his policies outside the luncheon. She will attend to “give the President a fair hearing,” although she opposes Bush’s proposal to spend $87 billion in Iraq “when we have so many issues here.”
Sullivan said, “The President is going to try to make a case for his failed economic policies and a logical forum for him is the chamber and the BIA. But I’d love to ask George W. Bush to meet with regular New Hampshire people and talk to working people about the economy, health care and the environment, just like the Democratic Presidential candidates are doing.”
A new ad for Democratic Presidential hopeful John Edwards, which begins airing today, accuses Bush of proposing a “giveaway for Iraq with no plan in sight.”
The Sierra Club says it has bought 30-second ads this week on Manchester and Boston TV stations charging that Bush’s environmental policies expose Americans to more power plant pollution and weaken basic clean air protection.
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If he signs the Assault Weapons Ban, I promise you he won't. Hamsireites aren't screwing around when they say "live free or die".
Graph - CS Monitor
Notice in case of Bush I, his approval dropped dramatically among Dems, just like his son's rating has. However, this President is steadily sitting at over 90% support with his base, very much unlike his Dad. And his father still probably would have won without Perot. While I understand the concern, Dubya's really not in any re-election trouble from where I sit. If he were, you'd probably see him having trouble raising funds. It's safe to say we're seeing quite the opposite.
I don't advocate anyone being complacent. On the contrary, I'm so angry at the liberals right now I could spit, and I'll be venting that anger through time and money donations to President Bush's campaign.
The problem is always going to be that newspapers will report any economic news with their spin on it.
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