Unfortunately, I missed Dubya’s flailing about on Russert Sunday morning, so I can’t really venture an opinion about how that went. (The rightniks seem dour about it.) But Salon has put up an interesting presidential popularity chart, which shows that Dubya’s approval rating has only spiked thrice: 9/11, the Iraq War, and Saddam’s capture. Makes you wonder if Karl Rove is on the phone with Pakistan this very moment.
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At work, we’ve all decided to put our predictions about Bin Laden’s “capture” date–will it be closer to the convention or the election?–into envelopes and store them away until after the election. We also have been wondering when we all turned into the kind of people we used to call “conspiracy nuts,” but that’s another story.
How about a bin Laden capture DURING the Democratic convention … that would certainly steal some thunder.
hey kevin, what did you think about that peggy noonan article? i thought it was an interesting point that “republicans are better at speeches and democrats are better at talking points”… i wouldn’t be so dogmatic about it, but it makes sense. speeches are about One Big Idea, and republicans tend towards that (“less government”, “lower taxes”, “color-blind society”, etc.) talking points are about showing knowledge of details, and democrats tend to acknowledge the existence of details more and not think of the world so simplistically. but details don’t make for interesting public speaking.
reminds me that one way of looking at the phenomenon of the democrats slowly becoming the minority party is that they haven’t articulated that one big idea as to what they’re all about… we’ve just been the “anti-Reagan” or “anti-Bush”, etc. seems like that’s what Podesta’s trying to do with the new think tank.