Fruit Salad

This is one of those posts that leaves me scratching my head, creating an opposition between polls that suggest the Republicans are losing younger voters against a poll that indicates that younger voters support Bush. (Not sure who the poster is -- Sullivan seems to have invited several guest bloggers (another vaction?) -- who are being all chatty and old friends and I missed the lead-in. Ross Duthot?)

If you mix apples and oranges, you get fruit salad.

It's easy to square the polls -- Bush is not the Republican Party, Bush has great personal magnetism and the young tend to latch onto charismatic leaders even more than most of us, and the poll seems to focus on the war, about which the young have little perspective. The Republicans have developed a fine public image for ineptitude, spinelessness, and corruption; presidents tend to be able to deflect that sort of thing until they're actually hauled before the Senate. on charges.

Q.E.D.