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George Bush catches Osama Bin Laden in early 2008. How does this effect the outcome of the election?
George Bush catches Osama Bin Laden in early 2008. How does this effect the outcome of the election?
The economy did not become the major issue until the middle of the year.
Whatever the case, it would help Obama, because McCain, being one who supports the war, would be robbed of the primary threat to homeland security that justifies it.
Minimal impact at that point. The major issue in the election was the economy-and McCain's gaffes about what he would do about the economy if he was elected. The people that were going to vote for Obama over the war in Iraq probably would not have changed their votes if bin Laden was captured unless Al-Qaida disintegrated after bin Laden's capture.
No, it would help McCain. Nobody would claim that capturing bin Laden had eliminated the al-Qaida threat. And it would boost Bush's job approval numbers, which would help every GOP candidate.
But Bush's job rating's would still crash in response to the economic crisis.
His ratings would have had a higher floor tho. The political damage to Bush from the financial collapse was exacerbated by the fact that it played into an already-existing meme of incompetence, and capturing bin Laden would have countered that meme.