It helps that Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw, mainstream economists who served under George Bush junior, are advising him.

ECONOMIST: America��s jobs crisis

Two decades later he failed to save another, when he organised Mr Gore's challenge to George Bush junior after the 2000 election.

ECONOMIST: Warren Christopher

Mr Bush, through his spokesman, treads carefully on this point, since a now-discredited federal school reform is part of the legacy of George Bush junior.

ECONOMIST: Conservative education reform

Unless Congress intervenes, tax rates will rise sharply on January 1st, as a series of temporary cuts adopted during the presidency of George Bush junior expire.

ECONOMIST: Congress

Even Mr Romney's much more modest call to cut the corporate tax rate and extend income-tax cuts dating from George Bush junior's presidency generates more dismay than enthusiasm among voters.

ECONOMIST: The presidential race

He served as acting attorney-general under George Bush junior.

ECONOMIST: Election laws

And as for George Bush junior...

ECONOMIST: Barack Obama has ignited a fiery debate about class