Complaint On Clinton Now Applies To Bush

[Florida_Geek]

Very short piece from the Tampa Tribune. Wish there was more.


Complaint On Clinton Now Applies To Bush

Published: Mar 29, 2004

WASHINGTON - Republicans used to argue that President Clinton used Air Force One as his personal campaign plane, taking many official presidential trips that had no real purpose other than to raise re- election funds or drum up votes.
But President Bush has been on the go even more than his predecessor, according to an analysis by Brookings Institution visiting scholars Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Anthony Corrado and researcher Emily Charnock.

In his first three years in office, Bush took 416 trips to 46 states, compared with Clinton's 302 trips to 40 states during a similar period.

Tenpas and Corrado found that 39 percent of Bush's trips were to ``swing states'' - those where the vote margin in the 2000 election was within 6 percentage points - compared with 28 percent for Clinton. Bush, for instance, took 27 trips to Pennsylvania - more than to any state other than Virginia and California. Next up was Florida, the most swingy state of all last time, with 24 Bush visits. Texas, Bush's home, was fifth, and Missouri, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia rounded out the top 10.


http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGABXR25ESD.html

[revcarol]

1. this appeared in TAMPA?

Now if it were in St. Pete....

The cracks are showing...

[lostnfound]

2. kick -- (plus Bush's trips geared to small corporate crowds only) nt

[radfringe]

3. according to my "fuzzy" math...this works out as follows

3 years (156 weeks) + 3 months (12 weeks) = 168 weeks

416/168 weeks - 2.4 trips per week for fund raisers

he now has enough frequent flier miles to go back to Crawford

[Rockholm]

4. Kick (*'s Butt Back to TX)...

Although, we should start reminding everyone that * has just as much a Yankee pedigree as Kerry. Born in Connecticut, educated (hahaha) at Andover (Massachusetts), Yale (Connecticut) and Harbard (Massachusetts). Daddy and Mommy both Yankees. Have a home in Kennebunkport (Maine). Damn, Daddy's old home in Massachusetts is around the corner from me!
Georgie is no "good ol' boy" from Texas.