The fact that the Bush 43 team was also guilty of playing the double game is no excuse.
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Bush 43 drew ultimate attention to the arrangement by habitually dialing into work from his Texas ranch via videoconference.
Bush 43 wanted a weak dollar, and the Federal Reserve gave him one.
Bush 43 beat the awkward Gore and his makeup and wardrobe problems.
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"The Obama administration has certainly been more aggressive in its merger enforcement than Bush 43, " said Melissa Maxman, an antitrust lawyer at Cozen O'Connor law firm in Washington.
Imagine my surprise when, in the course of an appearance I made last Wednesday on MSNBC's "Hardball, " host Chris Matthews seemed determined to diminish, if not dismiss altogether, this legacy of the Bush 43 presidency.
The October 9-10 poll had Bush at 43 percent and Kerry at 50 percent.
This was the belief of Presidents Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush (43).
The results were consistent with the last poll Gallup conducted in Florida, which found in late September that 52 percent of respondents chose Bush and 43 percent Kerry.
There is one instructive universal historic fact: No president has left office with the country using less energy than when he was first inaugurated, although Bush (43) came close due to the recession.
But both Presidents Bush, 41 and 43, went along with increases and so did the Newt Gingrich Congress in 1996.
Clinton went onto win the November election by 43 percent to Bush's 39 percent.
Two polls give him 23-26% in New Hampshire, compared with Mr Bush's 42-43%.
In the CNN poll, Bush had 51 percent and Kerry 43 percent among likely voters interviewed.
Clinton garnered 43 percent of the vote compared with Bush's 37.4 percent and Perot's 18.9 percent.
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Vice President Gore with 666, 997 votes, or 47.43 percent, led Texas Gov. Bush, with 664, 805, or 47.27 percent.
By contrast, in a poll done Thursday to Saturday, before news of the capture broke, Bush's approval was 54 percent, with 43 percent expressing disapproval.
The biggest recent catch is Jeanne Shaheen, a popular former governor of New Hampshire, who will try to unseat Mr Sununu, the son of George Bush senior's chief of staff and, at 43, the youngest senator.
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The Bush administration dismissed the criticism, pointing out that at least 43 of the participants are big donors to Democratic campaigns.
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