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07-12-2003 02:17 PM |
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following September 11. In the week immediately prior to the terrorist attacks, Bush's standing in opinion polls was at its lowest point ever, with only 50% of respondents giving him a positive rating. Within two days of the attack, that number shot up to 82%. Since then, whenever the public's attention has begun to shift away from topics such as war and terrorism, Bush has seen his domestic popularity ratings slip downward, spiking up again when war talk fills the airwaves. By March 13-14 2003, his popularity had fallen to 53% - essentially where he stood with the public prior to 9/11. On March 18, Bush declared war with Iraq, and the ratings shot up again to 68% - even when, briefly, it appeared that the war might be going badly.
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The Admin are well aware of this "tool" where they cloak the "commander in chief" in a US flag and appeal to patriotism in an effort to sustain Bush's popularity. The other "tool" is the use a load of rhetoric telling the populace how they are in danger from all these demons.
Bush was a nothing when he was half elected.. he has been a nothing all thru his "wars" and is a nothing now.
Fortunately, there is no time before the election to have another war to sustain his popularity, so it has reverted back to photo opps with him posing in Africa as the "compassionate conservate" in helping solve the AIDS crisis - pity that effort is as hollow as him.
For the more dramatic posing operation.. wait till election time. This was delayed as far as possible to the 9/11 anniversary to enable him to wrap the flag around himself and pose, once again, as the saviour of the US.
Sadly, all this has nothing to do with running the US - it is hard to find *any* issue he has initiated to benefit the US or anyone else in other parts of the globe. |
