Podgy the Bear
mollybecky
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« on: September 08, 2019, 07:22:12 AM » |
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The "rally around the flag" effect fades rapidly after the crisis is resolved and/or attention fades. This happened in 1945 in Britain shortly after WWII ended and Winston Churchill lost to Clement Attlee.
Closer to home, the Cuban missile crisis sent Kennedy's approval rating into the stratosphere and then faded. But it was enough for the Democrats to be very strong in the 1962 midterms. The Iran hostage crisis was enough to boost Jimmy Carter's approval ratings so that he was very strong in the early part of the 1980 primary season to eventually push back Ted Kennedy.
Add to the fact that the economy was in bad shape in 1991--and Bush's ratings dropped considerably toward the end of the year.
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