Bush Blunders Block Path to Reelection

Bush blunders block path to reelection
By Brad Bannon

Last week was a good week for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and if he has another good week, then next week he will be President-Elect Kerry.

The Washington Post nightly national tracking survey indicates that there was a sharp decline in support for the president among likely voters over the last week. As late as last Wednesday, the Post national survey had President Bush leading Kerry by 6 percent, 51 percent to 45 percent which was a statistically significant lead based on the 3 percent margin of error for the poll. By Monday, however the race was a statistical dead heat with Kerry at 50 percent and Bush at 48 percent. Surveys also show that Kerry is doing even better in the battleground states than he is nationally.

And an angry electorate doesn’t reelect an incumbent president. If the current President Bush thinks I’m wrong, my advice to him would be to have a chat with his father, the former President Bush. The Post survey indicates that a clear majority of Americans feel that state of the nation is pretty screwed up. More than half (55 percent) of the likely voters in the national voter poll feel that things in the United States have gotten seriously off the wrong track while only two out of every five Americans think that things generally are going in the right direction. And it’s important to remember that this majority feels that things have gotten “seriously” off on the wrong track and are not just unhappy about the state of affairs.

Why are Americans bent out of shape? Let me count the ways.

http://www.hillnews.com/daily_features/102704.aspx

"Despite the Bush family ties to the Saudi royal family, the price of crude oil rose hit a record high of more than $55 a gallon on Monday."

It should read, "Because of close ties to the Saudi Family, oil has risen to $55 a barrel."

Good catch!