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Which brings us to 2004, another election the Democrats should lose. They are facing a popular incumbent who has just won a war. George W. Bush is everything Democrats have not been--bold, decisive, uncomplicated, a man of real convictions who has not been afraid to take unpopular positions. Furthermore, unlike his father, this Bush is a political animal. He has a clever team. If the Democrats do happen to find a winning issue, you can be sure that Karl Rove, the President's strategist, will figure out a way to trump or co-opt it (as he did with...
Just a few years ago, Davis was one of the country's more popular Governors. In last year's election, he bucked national trends to lead a Democratic sweep of statewide offices. But now he finds himself with a 24% approval rating, making him the most unpopular Governor in the Field Poll's 55-year history. And he has plenty of company. New York's Republican Governor George Pataki has an approval rating of 43% in the latest Quinnipiac poll, 38 percentage points lower than it was after 9/11. And Pataki is faring better than his neighbors, Democrat James McGreevey...
...after more than two centuries of representative democracy and effective rule by law, solidifying political norms that Bush couldn’t change if he wanted to, a Boulanger-style putsch would be extremely unpopular. If Bush’s theatrics really were an assault on American values, voters wouldn’t need a newspaper columnist to explain it to them...
...tell the public to be optimistic, Mr. President," is how a participant summed up the advice business leaders dispensed at another recent White House session. That may explain why the President refuses to give up on trying to end the tax on dividends, the most politically unpopular element of his package. His advisers also believe that elimination of this so-called double taxation can provide a quick "optimism boost" to the stock markets. White House officials point to forecasts of a quick rise in the Dow of between 5% and 20% if the measure is passed. "There is no more...
Mayor Michael A. Sullivan asked each of the finalists a series of seven questions that pointedly addressed the key issues facing the system, specifically grilling each candidate how he or she would address the “achievement gap” and make unpopular decisions...