K1052
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True but there's also a rally around the flag element in an emergency. For example Bush won in 2004 despite it being pretty clear Iraq wasn't going great and was based on lies.
As the only world leader not to benefit politically from at least APPEARING competent in the face of the crisis I think there is an argument that his conduct translated sorta directly into the loss.