If the economy goes into recession and voters become increasingly socio-economically insecure, than it is only just that the candidate (McCain) of the incumbent party (Republican) takes the electoral consequences
Bush is the incumbent Republican president. He's the 'Captain of the Ship', who has set the course, primarily with the backing of his party in Congress, these past seven years
Dave
"just" Yeah, I'm sure you'd say that if we had an incumbent Democratic president. So, if the economy is not doing well every member of the party holding the position of chief of state should be voted out, in the name of justice, right? For instance, if Britain would enter a recession every Labour politician in every position would deserve not to be elected? Or are you maybe being hypocritical?
Not at all, if Labour lose the next general election then they will have deserved to do so. I, myself, right now, am pretty disillusioned with a government that I increasingly perceive as being out of touch, incompetent and limping along a slow painful death to defeat, but I need to see a Conservative government in operation before I can even begin to reappraise them. Politically, my formative years were the 1980s and I don't recall them with fondness
Whether a wider UK recession is on the cards I don't know, but I'd like to think that Labour can stear the UK through with minimal socio-economic trauma
As for America, after eight years of Bush, I'm just firmly of the conviction that it is time for a change of direction. McCain may
or
may not 
deliver that, which is why I'm not hedging
Dave
