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global1

(25,251 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2019, 08:26 PM Apr 2019

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Will 'Game Over' Become As Famous As 'Mission Accomplished' ....nt (Original Post) global1 Apr 2019 OP

Bad choice.... W said it in 2003 and was re-elected in 2004 4139 Apr 2019 #1

It nearly doomed him, though. TwilightZone Apr 2019 #3

Yes I think it has great potential. nt UniteFightBack Apr 2019 #2

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1. Bad choice.... W said it in 2003 and was re-elected in 2004

Sat Apr 20, 2019, 08:30 PM

Apr 2019

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3. It nearly doomed him, though.

Sat Apr 20, 2019, 08:43 PM

Apr 2019

The Mission Accomplished nonsense was part of a very long, very large decline in his approval. If not for a very timely spike in his approval rating just before the election, he would have lost in 2004.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_bush_job_approval-904.html

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2. Yes I think it has great potential. nt

Sat Apr 20, 2019, 08:40 PM

Apr 2019