[demkicker]

"My Terrell consultant friends tell me their polls dropped all day Friday after the O'Neill news. Bush's numbers on the economy fell more than 15 POINTS in LA. It totally magnified the unemployment number."

If true, this tells me that the Dems seized the Bush administration announcement as BAD news, painted the gloom and doom picture, shouted it all damed day and scared the beejeebers out of everyone. Evidently the Republicans were pathetically unprepared and blew it.

My apologies to laconic. I'll never comprehend folks who don't know who they're voting for until the last minute. I guess that's why I could never be a democRAT.

[paul544]

The only chink in Bush's armour is the economy. I thought it would have turned around by now. Hopefully Bush is smart enough to avoid his dad's mistakes. I agree though, Fridays announcements didn't help the situation at all.