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Originally Posted by baddog
yeah, that 65% approval rating was a tough stigma to carry into an election campaign.
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You really like to cherry pick numbers so you can give one line responses that you think are witty don't you?
http://uspolitics.about.com/od/polls...l_approval.htm
Eisenhower 59% approval rating leaving office, Nixon lost to Kennedy.
George H.W. Bush had a 56% approval rating, and lost re-election.
Gerald Ford had a 53% approval rating, and lost re-election.
There are just as many examples going the other way....which basically tells me that the number you chose doesn't mean shit....it was just your way of trying to give a one line witty (at least you thought it was witty) retort.
There are many reasons Gore lost that election (the Supreme Court being the main one, our archaic way of deciding presidential elections being the 2nd), but a big part of the reason was he was tainted with Clinton's moral shortcomings, and running against a guy who talked about "restoring honor and morality to the white house" and people bought it.
Sure being Clinton's veep had some positives for Gore, but kane's statement that Gore was "handed the presidency on a silver platter" is utterly ridiculous.