The quite clever song about President-elect George Bush ought not be read by social scientists simply as partisan cheerleading. By partisans, yes, but not by social scientists.
Political humor is a useful indicator for students of American politics.
Who Jay Leno is skewering, how frequently a politician is being skewered, and on what subject areas are all information that can be treated as data and indicators of public sentiment about issues and individuals. How long-lived the popular sense of the illegitimacy of George Bush's election is, is an important question for any scholar of the American political scene. Similarly, we can be sure that a subject of scholarly analysis of the Bush administration, probably within the first two years, will be the question of to what extent citizens agree with the view that Bush is not his own man but is a tool of his father's political cronies. The views and opinions contained within the messages of this archive are strictly those of the message authors. The contents of the messages in this archive have not been reveiwed or approved by neither the Humphrey Institute nor the University of Minnesota.