Brenda wrote:
andyt wrote:
Brenda wrote:
My American friends are convinced he won himself the election with this.
Euphoria is a short lived emotion. By next year it will be "so what have you done for us lately." It does give him some not soft on terror cred.
I don't think so. The overall sentiment that I got was "Now we can start healing". That is huge...
It would be nice if it were true, but it's way to early to say. Dan mentions Carter, but if Carter had rescued the hostages a year and a half before the election, and the economy had stayed the way it was, Raygun would definitely have had a shot. Unless there's an immediate threat, or the economy is booming, it's always the economy, stupid. If there's no war and the economy is booming it's "we're bored, amuse us."