4th of July weekend 2004-$38 oil and 853 US deaths in Iraq

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As it happened, “Wall-E” opened the same summer weekend as the hot-button movie of the 2004 campaign year, Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Ah, the good old days. Oil was $38 a barrel, our fatalities in Iraq had not hit 900, and only 57 percent of Americans thought their country was on the wrong track. (Now more than 80 percent do.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/opinion/06rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DE1438F93BA15755C0A9629C8B63
Published: June 28, 2004
At the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude oil futures set for August delivery ended trading at $37.55 a barrel on Friday, down from $38.45 a barrel two weeks earlier.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6DC1238F933A05755C0A9629C8B63&
Published: June 30, 2004
At least 632 American soldiers have died in hostile action since the war began in March 2003. Another 221 have died from other causes.

Bush's Rating Falls to Its Lowest Point, New Survey Finds
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/29/politics/campaign/29POLL.html?ex=1215662400&en=cea90e33d859260e&ei=5070
Published: June 29, 2004
And 57 percent say the country is going in the wrong direction, another measure used by pollsters as a barometer of discontent with an incumbent.