The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Alex

Or, if you go by opinion polls as an indicator he'd have been out of office after 7 years (by year 6 he was well under 50% in such polls).

I think he might well have been out after four years. I'm not sure he would have been able to muster 51% of the (popular or electoral) votes in 2004 without John Kerry to run against.