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Approval ratings mean dick. Bush Sr. got elected out of office with a 92% approval rating.
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You're completely wrong Mojo. It took me 10 seconds on google to fact-check you. I assume you're just trolling, please go troll some other thread.
Bush Sr. had an approval rating of 92% directly after the gulf war, but that had plummeted to well under 50% by the time he lost the election. It's telling to read the account here:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...ew/954/1/.html
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Mr Bush Sr won the first Gulf War against Iraq in 1991, emerging with an approval rating of 91 per cent — but with the economy still in the recession that had begun before the war.
A few months later, that approval rating halved as the economic situation worsened.
He lost the US election to Mr Bill Clinton in 1992 after having ignored voters’ concerns over domestic issues such as unemployment, which was at six per cent at the time.
His defeat was famously encapsulated in the phrase: “It’s the economy, stupid”, hung on a sign in Mr Clinton’s campaign office by his political strategist, Mr James Carville, as a reminder of the election focus.
His father’s loss has been a constant worry for Mr Bush, whose own approval rating has slipped from 71 per cent after the war in April to 53 per cent. To be fair, he has been trying to address the economy and, in May, declared US$330 billion ($575 billion) of tax cuts over 10 years in the hope of creating more jobs.
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