They loathed him, they feared him, and as Peggy Noonan says, he had them so depressed they wanted to commit "mass suicide". so even without the close 2000 race, the left would hate President Bush, because he is so like Reagan.
Sing it Peggy!
The collective media is gonna choke.
She was laughing and answered the question 'what was the mood like' with, "mass suicide could be considered a mood." :-)