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Originally Posted by whell
"They read what they want to read..."
I said: "Bush Jr. was an immensely popular president, but the war was more the agenda than the economy in 2004..."
As to the primary giving us McCain, sure it did. But don't forget some shenanigans by Mccain and Huckabee, those stallwart moderates. Huckabee stayed in the campaign and refused to release his delegates in an effort to help give McCain the nomination.
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If you look at the link I posted, Dubya derived whatever popularity he had from the (ill-fated) war(s). If it weren't for the wars, he'd have had virtually no support at all.
As for shenanigans, what goes around comes around. Wasn't it Dubya who trashed McCain in 2000 in the South Carolina primary with robo-calls saying that McCain fathered a black child out of wedlock? Classy fellow, that Dubya. It seems to me that ever since the Southern Strategy, the GOP has done a lot of shady stuff come election time.