It is truly frightening how close they came. We were not confronted with merely a liberal northeast senator. He was classified as "the most liberal U.S. senator by voting record". Actually He was far more an "anti-american" whose radicalism is carefully modulated to conceal his true allegiances. And the MSM of course found him "their Man in Washington."
It is also not an accident he was endorsed by the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA).
Meanwhile the U.S. history courses in high schools across the country are indoctrinating America's youth with a horribly-skewed hatefilled anti-American diatribe against our country. Then the lefties wonder why the youth vote is not terribly interested in voting. As Dennis Prager has observed, the Left is undermining democratic (small d) morale wherever it goes.
Well, since we are on the subject, the only reason (in my opinion) that the election was anywhere as close as it turned out to be, was because of the incredible kid glove treatment Kerry got from the Media, and because of the hammering away that the Media did on every single negative thing they could find. How else to explain weeks and weeks of lead stories about Muslim prisoners with underwear on their heads? Every single US soldier that was killed in action was led off with the intonement of "The 763rd fatality since the declaration of the end of hostilities...The 764th fatality...." etc.
THANK GOD FOR THE SWIFT BOAT VETS-THEY PULLED PRESIDENT BUSH THROUGH. If it had not been for the constant hammering of the MSM, Bush would have won by 15 points, minimum.
As to the character of Kerry-I think a paraphrased quote from Richard Nixon (Speaking of Alger Hiss, I believe) describes it best: "If Americans knew the true nature of this man, they would boil him in oil."
Of course, that is my opinion, yours may vary.