"Madcap" is a good work for Bush and his schemes. Maybe too kind to him, though.
////Someone said to me last week that people will only vote against a politician when he begins to hit their pockets and their lifestyle. I hope such cynicism is wrong, and anyway it may be just a British thing////
No, I don't think it is just a British thing. Or even particularly cynical. It's just the way human nature works. In the US in 1992, Clinton's election slogan for his campaign workers was, "It's the economy, stupid." And it was. Over the years, the state of the economy has turned out to be the single most reliable predictor of US presidential election outcomes featuring an incumbent. If the economy is stable or improved, an incumbent will be returned. If not, he won't.
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Date: 2004-11-08 07:27 pm (UTC)////Someone said to me last week that people will only vote against a politician when he begins to hit their pockets and their lifestyle. I hope such cynicism is wrong, and anyway it may be just a British thing////
No, I don't think it is just a British thing. Or even particularly cynical. It's just the way human nature works. In the US in 1992, Clinton's election slogan for his campaign workers was, "It's the economy, stupid." And it was. Over the years, the state of the economy has turned out to be the single most reliable predictor of US presidential election outcomes featuring an incumbent. If the economy is stable or improved, an incumbent will be returned. If not, he won't.