Thats a redundant headline. and he used 'victory' twice in it
First of all, it wasn't a small cushion of victory no matter how they try to spin it. Secondly, if the attacks here on FR already are any indication, the President's enemies will be his own party.
There is always a danger in great victory, for example the British Tory win in 1992 was considered to be a great achievement at the time, yet it lead to the defeats of 1997 and 2001; had we lost marginally to Labour then, the Tories would have been back in (and strongly so) in 1997.
That said, this looks like an attempt to find the silver-lining to the cloud (from the left-wing perspective); Pres. Bush increased his popular vote, his share of the popular vote, his share of the Electoral College, and his party's representation in both houses of Congress. This is nothing other than a disaster for the Democratic Party.
The left was not voting for Kerry, they were voting against Bush. Bush isn't running next time. Cheney won't be running. Hard to push against "Bush and Cheney" when neither is in the race. Some of Kerry's voter base included conflicting demographics for example homosexuals vs. Christian or even muslim black voters; they oppose same sex marriage AND they oppose attempts to liken the homosexual campaign to racial segregation (Kerry had to FLIP FLOP).
Bush got votes from "911 Democrats" who switched parties on the WOT issue (Dick Morris, Ed Koch, Ron Silver, et al), Christian conservatives who focus on abortion and same sex marriage (the Amish voters factor into Bush's Ohio victory to some degree), Americans against Kerry (a known traitor to his nation during Vietnam and someone who indicated he would sell us out to the United Nations), Americans against the Mainstream Media (the backlash to their support of Michael Moore, Rock The Liberal Vote, constant Bush bashing, hoaxes as news such as Rathergate...), and those who actively support President Bush in all of his policies (or at least see that he offers a better shot at the policies they want than Kerry could ever offer).
George W. Bush succeeded in getting more popular votes than all "ANYBODY BUT BUSH" candidates combined. A healthy majority of 3million voters. Bush got more votes than Ronald Reagan. Voters wanted to make sure that Kerry did not get in office.
Will people turn out next time? Who knows? Totally depends on what happens over the next 4 years. Will the UN disintegrate after being exposed as a part of the problem? Will the right to LIFE be clarified in the Constitution so that abortion is off the table as an issue? Will same sex marriage be off the table?
Will war or national security have new conflicts to worry voters?
The left is selling socialism a little at a time. Expect to see them yet again selling nationalized health care, more environmentalism (get people out of cars), still opposing school choice. Welfare and Social Security may also be yet again a part of their drumbeat.
The insults these days might just as well be written by high school drama queens for all the impact they have. This is a very lightweight commentary for a paper that used to have a shred of respectability. Wave good-buy as the LAT(itanic) slips into the merky waters of oblivion.
voodo predictive analysis only applies if the Washington Redskins win by a field goal kicked on a fourth down against the wind by a kicker with an even numbered jersey...
hmmm, i guess he didn't read david shuster's column today about how deep the bush revolution is....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/
Or measured another way Bush got 3.5 million more votes.
Get over it!!
Sore losers try to find a way to live with themselves the next four years. This person sounds like he has trouble accepting the Red Mandate just as some people of California wanted to join Canada.
(Sigh
If Kerry had won the election by a margin of 51% to 48%, the leftists would be trumpeting their "mandate" to the four corners of the world and how Kerry had crushed Bush in a landslide election.
Well, turnabout is fair play. Our guy won - by a large margin and your guy lost.
Deal with it.
Yeah, the Democrats are expecting a big comeback-that's why they're moving to Canada.
WEll I still say with a good economy , an opponent like Kerry ,and no scandals Bush should have had a landslide ala Reagan and his father's election
The barbarians are at the gate and haven't left
Iraq could get real ugly and Social Security is going to be a bitch to fix
We are living in a credit card economy that is a house of plastic
TOO many Americans don't know what a bad economy really is
and any slight downturn( they may have to give uo one of the family's 5 cell phones ) will have them convinced they are living through a Second Great Depression
This war will need $$$$$ to run etc etc
The colleges continue to turn out more brainwashed lefties every year while the conservative right pretty much tapped ALL its available resources vote wise this year
Wake up dreamers, this is the Bush legacy!
I anticipate Ralph Reed working his magic in the Mid-west states which Bush lost narrowly, like Michigan and Wisconsin, and in the West. Considering that Kerry won California, Oregon and Washington by single digits, there is fertile grounds to capture those states as well.
Let those simple-minded left-wing sycophants in the media live in their fantasy world. They won't know what hit them!
If the GOP hadn't been winning so many elections by blowouts in the last 35 years, then I guess they would have more close elections.
Historically the GOP was supposed to lose seats in 2002; we gained.
Historically the President was supposed to lose re-election due to unemployment rate; being outspent; shaky war situation etc etc.
well he proved to be the exception to the rule
lets hope that the GOP continues to make gains
Still trying to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat...
Good, let them spend the next four years convincing themselves that a) they didn't really lose this eleectin...it was stolen, or, b) while they might have lost, it really wasn't by very much. This should make for an even BIGGER loss in 2008. Thus, repeats the Rat's cycle.
It worked for 2000-2004 period, no reason it won't work again.