Poppinjay

Before this is dismissed as another partisan slam, this post is the result of listening to the John Batchelor show. John Batchelor is a die-hard Republican, and wrote a book on the history of the GOP.

His show did their own poll today after the news of Bush leaking intelligence (sorry, I just had to put it that way). They were finishing up the results and handed them to John just before a break, and his reaction was, "so we find the president's approval rating at.... dear lord."

He comes back to report that this poll organized by a GOP friendly radio show finds Bush is at 35%, the lowest ever in modern polling. So his topic is, "why the low approval when the economy is roaring?" Housing starts up 11%, full employment, the world economy is rumbling.

I think this would disprove Carville's statement, "it's the economy, stupid." It may have been the economy in 1992, but that obviously has changed. Values, which is what Bush ran on, is apparently biting him in the ass, as scandal and blunder follow each other ass over tea kettle.

So the thought that Batchelor had was, "Republicans, you have to run on jobs, jobs, jobs (meaning the booming economy under a GOP congress and president), Democrats you have to run on, it's not jobs".

So, will Dems have to run on values, while the GOP adopts, "it's the economy, stupid"?

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