No quarrel from me there. Most people aren't paying attention to anything but appearances.
A lot of people vote for somebody because his hair looks good.
Some also vote based on being attacked at the wallet. I look at a 300 dollar tax refund and the 30k job I'm losing. Nice refund. Can I have my job back that I'm losing because of your other policies mr. president.. Oh, sorry, forgot. Government intervention that cost me my job is ok. Government intervention to protect my job is bad because the ivory tower types can't feed their greed by screwing me via Bush's policy on trade. Oh, and almost forgot that Bush isn't responsible for his own trade policy..
America sees this and gets it. If Bush and the rest of this party doesn't and soon, It won't be because nobody warned about it or tried to set it right. It will be because people drunk on power and greed thought like a certain King did a few hundred years ago, right until we decided to make tea en masse.