Foreign politics and the deficit are important issues but do you really worry about that stuff when you don't know how to keep your family going? High gasoline (oil) prices push up the prices of almost everything. Bush is charge right now and he is likely to catch the blame (Of course, the oil prices are controlled by OPEC). More people are affected by the negative effect of high oil prices than by the collapse of Enron or the Iraq war. Sad to say, but a lot of people really don't give a flip about anything that doesn't affect them personally... The prices at the pump ruin the general mood. Around here I hear more people griping about the high gas prices than I hear talk about their nice refund checks. It's my guess that Bush's doom will be that a lot of "supporters of his ideas" will stay at home in November.