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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The election will be a referendum on W. W has moved up a tick or two in the polls in the last few weeks by laying low and letting surrogates attack Kerry. But the focus will come back to Bush, and his record. People don't like his budget deficits, and they don't like his war, and so the question is whether they can swallow all that for firm leadership in the war on terrorism.
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From today's Barnhart report on the Chicago Tribune:
>>Stocks staged an afternoon rally today, enabling the Dow Jones industrial average and the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index to close August with a slim gain.
That was good news for President Bush. In the post-World War II era, no incumbent president has been re-elected when the stock market fell in August.
The Dow fell 4 percent in August 1992, before Bill Clinton defeated incumbent George H.W. Bush. At midday today, it seemed George W. Bush was in line to suffer an August slump of his own.
But the Dow closed up 51.40 points, at 10.173.92.
For the month, the Dow inched up 34 points, or 0.3 percent.<<
While it doesn't say he's gonna win, it doesn't say he's gonna lose either.
