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The S factor explains Bush's popularity

What can explain US President George Bush's popularity? Are many people enamored of what he has accomplished in Iraq? Of how he has fortified our constitutional freedoms with the USA Patriot Act? Of how he has bolstered the US economy? Of how he has protected the environment? Perhaps they've been impressed with the president's personal integrity and the articulation of his grand vision for America?
t's the "Stupid factor," the S factor: Some people -- sometimes through no fault of their own -- are just not very bright.
You know these people; they're all around you (they're not you, else you would not be reading this article this far). They're the ones who keep the puerile shows on TV, who appear as regular recipients of the Darwin Awards, who raise our insurance rates by doing dumb things, who generally make life much more miserable for all of us than it ought to be. Sad to say, they comprise a substantial minority -- perhaps even a majority -- of the populace.