Why Bush is doomed: True or false...

[DrBB]

True or false: Barring an economic miracle that would trigger the creation of more than two million jobs in the next eighteen months, George W. Bush will end this term as the first president since Carter to oversee a net loss in employment.

Answer: false.
He'll be the first president since HERBERT HOOVER to oversee a net loss in employment.

Any other questions?

[oasis]

1. Then Dem voter turnout will not matter?

Answer: it will......buh bye ;-)

[sam sarrha]

3. We ALL need to volunteer at our local headquarters!!! register Democrats

to vote and on election Day, all day, volunteer to drive democratic voters to the poles....all over the country in every city and town.. this will be the only we can cinch the election.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

2. Unemployment is but ONE issue.

Surely you are not suggesting that national security, health care, educations, and social security are also not important in this election are you?

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. It would be nice to think...

...that Americans would actually vote in their economic self interest, but there are 70-100 million of them -- half of whom actually vote -- that would cheerfully volunteer to live in a cardboard box under a bridge if Junta Boy asked them, so long as Captain Codpiece promises to save them from the twin specters of peace abroad and gay marriage at home.

Since 1936, economic self-interest has never swung an American presidential election, or there would not have been a Republican elected in that span.

[maine_raptor]

5. WTF??????????? Davis_X_Machina

"Since 1936, economic self-interest has never swung an American presidential election, or there would not have been a Republican elected in that span."


I remember a very nice Jimmy Carter getting his a$$ handed to him by Ronnie Raygun when Ronnie asked the Am voter: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

Kinda sounds to me as if he was appealing to "economic self-interest".

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. Iran cost Carter the election. n/t

[maine_raptor]

8. That was part of it

but the high interst rates, sluggish economy, long gas lines, and that very simple, yet powerful question was what put RR in the WH.

[Davis_X_Machina]

9. Worst economic times in the 70's and 80's, for....

ordinary folks, in terms of interest rates and unemployment, were after the election was over.

[maine_raptor]

11. Hmmmmmmmm

Well then I must be mistaken in remembering a car loan I took out in 1978 with a 16% interest rate. Or maybe I forgot the shock of seeing gas for $1 a gal for the first time around then.


BTW: I see an image of the Great State of Maine in your post, where abouts?

[Clete]

6. Over here in the land of fortune tellers.

My husband says Bush is going to get a second term. :toast: I am toasting because my husband has never made a prediction that came true, ever.

He also said six months ago that Howard Dean would be nothing more than a blip and no one would even know his name in six months. :toast:

Let's hope his latest prediction is consistent with all his other ones. :bounce:

[dragonquest8]

10. Saddam and Osama are captured, WMDs are found

the economy bounces back. those things could still happen in the future.

[Clete]

12. The econmy will never bounce back unless

they fire the economic advisors they have and rehire Clinton's. Not only that no one can bring back the American lives lost in Iraq. The increasing body bag count is what will sour even the most rabid freeper.