New Hampshire Primary Results
We hear a lot about the New Hampshire primary’s anti-Bush feeling due to the economy and jobs, jobs, jobs. Pessimists see a big threat to Bush, the sitting duck. We have short memories. Do you remember in 1982-83, a much worse recession than the present? We had a sitting-duck Republican then--Ronald Reagan. The next year, 1984, he received the biggest winning vote in history. Now what was that about a recession unseating the incumbent president? Not since Herbert Hoover and FDR in 1932 has that happened. Don’t look for it to happen again. Employment is at an all-time high, exceeding 116 million. That’s the “glass is half full” philosophy.
NAT WOOD
Pasadena
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