Reply #6: Apparently not.

[jdsmith]

And you may recall that Springsteen had a "Reagan moment" back in the early-mid eighties. He announced a song by saying he had heard that the President really liked his music (this was when the Right--George Will, e.g.--were trying to co-opt _Born in the USA_ without listening to it). And he continued, "I don't know which songs he's been listeming to, but it's probably not this one." Then he played "Nebraska."

And (if I recall correctly) Dave Marsh wrote in _Musician_ about Springsteen's concert on election night 1980. After Reagan was voted in, Springsteen made a point of playing "Bad Moon on the Rise."