Julius Civitatus at JuliusBlog has taken an aggregate Bush approval numbers graph over time and added the announcements of terror alerts to the equation.
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Notice how neatly Terror Alerts align with drops in Bush's approval numbers. Notice also that his numbers tend to jump up a bit after each alert. Finally, notice how these alerts are getting much more frequent the closer we get to the election and the lower Bush's numbers sink.
Now, it would be too cynical even for me to think that there aren't ongoing, serious terrorist plots against the United States. I'm sure that there are many. The trotting out of Tom "This isn't Political" Ridge, though, is a bit too timely to be believed.
