I think it was Dan Rather who said, after W went to the WTC, that this was Gore country, the workers were chanting "Schumer, Schumer, Schumer," and < gag alert > "Hillary" (etc.), without doing the same for Bush. But once he got down into the wreckage and began to speak with them, the reporter said there was an electric response and he said you could FEEL the change that came over the people, the way the president connected with them. Reporter said W had completely won them over by the time he left. (And he wasn't there all that long.)
