Percent of Bush Stories | |
---|---|
Bush is a different kind of Republican | 40% |
Rebuttal of “different kind” theme | 16% |
Bush is unintelligent | 26% |
Rebuttal of “unintelligent” theme | 3% |
Bush coasts on family | 10% |
Rebuttal of “coasts on family” theme | 5% |
The most dominant theme in the 2000 campaign coverage of then-Gov. George W. Bush was that he was a “different kind of Republican.”