Speaking of the Bush-Clinton dynasty issue, AP writer Nancy Benac tackles the issue today. She asks: “Forty percent of Americans have never lived when there wasn’t a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. Anyone got a problem with that?”
According to polling some do:
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken over the summer found that fully one-quarter of all Americans said that the prospect of having at least 24 straight years of a President Clinton or Bush would be a consideration in their vote for president in 2008.
Even among Democrats, 17 percent said it would be a consideration. That compared with a third of all Republicans.
In a close election it could make a difference. Remember, Bill Clinton never won a majority of votes getting elected by a plurality both times.
