I suspect that the 24 hour news network has ended the era in which the President could be a popular figure. There is and always will be too much exposure for American voters not to find something they don't like about the government leaders.
The only way around this that I can see is for government leaders to get off the front pages of the papers is to stop doing things that are newsworthy-- id est, decreasing the size of the government. You'd think that if the government can't find things that are important enough to get on the front page of the paper that people actually like, that it would be a rather glaring sign.
I suspect America has wanted a more conservative government ever since Reagan came along. Bush I and Bush II's greatest flaws have been a very UNconservative approach to spending and regulation ("read my lips" comes to mind). Meanwhile, Clinton's greatest victory is the fact that he yielded so much ground to the conservatives.
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