A telling stat from NBC’s First Read and an illustration that the real author of this Republican rout was not John McCain but George W. Bush:
with the exception of Missouri, Obama won every state where Bush’s approval rating was below 35%, and he lost every state where Bush’s approval was above 35%.
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Jack Burton
November 13th, 2008 7:18pm Report this commentWhat about the state(s) where Pres Bush's approval rating was 35%?
Brad Brzezinski
November 13th, 2008 8:00pm Report this commentGeorge W. Bush has been thoroughly demonised for more than 8 years and is a scapegoat. BarryHO referred to him constantly even after McCain's pithy, "you should have run 4 years ago" comment. Even here in Canada, politicians constantly linked GWB with our Conservative Prime Minister in order to try and win the recent election. Hating George is simply the fashion. It's a tribal thing and it works.
Witness the Nazis in the 1930s who used this tactic.
Rex Burr
November 13th, 2008 9:37pm Report this comment'The real author of this Republican rout was not John McCain but George W. Bush'
Surely a statement of the obvious.
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