Saturday, May 15, 2004

Posted here Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 9:02:32 AM     Look at these poll results. http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm What it sugggests is that Bush was doing badly after the 2000 election. since then the up has been 9/11, attacking Iraq, capturing saddham. the questionis, what does it suggest as a republican strategy, and what does it suggest for kerry? At the moment the whitehouse feels in dissarray, but Rove is probaably spending half of his time on the what to do now question. ********

Posted here Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 8:32:30 AM     I wonder if this is not also true of the US. This from a good interview about Blair. http://www.magatopia.com/magazines/001atlantic.html Four years ago or so, I was talking to somebody who knows Blair and the government quite well. We were talking about William Hague, who was then the leader of the conservatives—the opposition—and was doing disastrously badly. My friend said, "Well, you can see poor Hague's problem. There's only room for one conservative party in this country." A bit of a cheap shot, but there's some truth in it. If Bush and Kerry are both fighting for the middle right, and the urban/rural poor, arts and intelligencaia, college youth, and urban professionals really have no party... ********