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Bush vs. Bush: Who's winning? Since they made it so easy for us to compare them by warring against Iraq twice, let's see how the people feel about Daddy versus Junior (USA Today):

If the 2004 election were held today, 51% of registered voters would vote for Bush, compared with 36% for a Democratic nominee, the poll found. On the eve of war two weeks ago, Bush led the Democrat 45%-42%, which amounts to a tie, given the poll's 4 percentage-point error margin.

Such numbers can be fleeting, as Bush's father learned after the 1991 Persian Gulf War. During the fighting, the senior Bush was preferred over an unnamed Democrat 54%-33%. But he lost his bid for re-election 21 months later to Bill Clinton, largely because he was seen as inattentive to the nation's economic problems. [USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Saturday and Sunday, March 29-30]

One-term Daddy vs. unnamed Democrat: 54-33.

Junior vs. unnamed Democrat: 51-36.

Even with a bump-up in the polls thanks to active fighting, Daddy, the re-election loser, is marginally beating his own son, who is therefore well poised to become an even bigger loser. Junior is not shaping up to be the "inevitable" creation that Dr. Karl Rove stitched together in his laboratory. Barring another election decided by Antonin Scalia, Junior may well lose his bid for a second shot at cynically Christianized demagoguery.

Maybe then we civilized Americans can stop feeling so apologetic every time we talk to any citizen of the rest of the civilized world.

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