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Glenn Reynolds on that topic in Forbes.
Read the whole thing for a good discussion. I'll offer a bit of a quibble on this line, however:
Truman fought in Korea and lost the next election. LBJ had to give up the White House over Vietnam. George H.W. Bush won in Iraq and enjoyed 90% approval ratings but lost the next election anyway.There's an exception to that rule - F.D.R., whose (depression-ending) leadership through WWII didn't cost him much in the way of voter support. Of course, in those days the media were more inclined to support the Commander-in-Chief, too.
But that's something to think about given our current economic crisis (worst since the depression!), the number of global hot zones ("Gird your loins... mark my words... he will be tested...) and unrivaled media popularity of an incoming CinC.