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The economy is still a very important factor in Presidential elections whether we realize it or not. Had the 9/11 attacks not ocurred, the economy would have been *much* stronger by election time, and Bush would have won by a larger margin

Along with that, it has been estimates that the Main Stream Media gave Kerry as much as 15 points. Had they not been so one sided it would have been (even With 9/11) a 50 state Land slide.

Most observers about this time last year thought there was no contest, and the Democrats were wasteing their time.

But the MSM loves a horse race, and would paint the appearance of a tie game if The Pope was running against Hitler. (For those of you in the Democratic Party, let me put it in Simple termse: They'd be strongly pulling for Hitler).

This is really dangerous. The press almost elected a traitor and a clown. They almost suceeded.

I remember Rush and Sean brought up this fact many times a few years ago when the libs were whining about how tax cuts didn't help the economy. What the attacks did was slow the progression of the cuts as you said and it would've helped had they not have happened?

However, we wouldn't have gone to war with Afghanistan? The country would still be buried in the haze of the mainstream media. Remember all of this discrediting of Rather came in regards to all this war opposition while comparing Kerry and Bush. If it weren't for dragging out those fake memos, we wouldn't enjoy the respect we have today.

Thanks, Russ... i agree.

But the MSM pounds on the negatives and ignores the positives, not matter what the environment during a Republican administration. Before 9/11, they were screaming about Bush/Cheney and their involvement with Enron, even though the fraud happened on Clinton's 'watch'.

As much as your words are the truth (to me) the media is too ignorant and/or disingenuous to point out any of that.

I agree with a lot of what you say, especially with the part about Kerry. If he HAD won, he could very well have been the "lucky" recipient of a roaring economy and would get all the credit for it. If this happened, he'd stand a good chance of being a shoo-in for re-election. And if Osama bin Ladin were caught, Kerry would also take all the credit for that. Also, guaranteed he'd be able to name one or more Supreme Court justices. That's why it would have been totally unacceptable to me, just the thought of him winning.

Like you mentioned, the tepid economy was one of Bush's big liabilities and made the election closer than it should have been. Another was people's attitudes towards the war. And there were a litany of others--the high gas prices, the MSM giving Kerry the most favorable coverage for a democrat since Carter, the flood of money the 527's had, an extraordinarily united anti-Bush democrat party, Bush's disappointing 1st debate performance, the draft lie, etc. With all this it's a bit of a miracle that Bush was the last man standing, and I really think that if it wasn't for the better campaign the gop ran, his personal qualities (both of which translated to high turnout on our side as well as getting some of the swingers and cutting into some traditionally dem voters) and the fact that Kerry was an unappealing, crap candidate, we would have lost.

Why was it as close as it was?

Kay Report
Phony Bush AWOL story
Richard's Clark phony testimony and 60 Minutes
Bob Woodward's lousy book and 60 Minutes
9/11 Hearings - Grilling of Rice, and the 24/7 appearances by the Jersey Girls
Overblown Abu Gharib "scandal."
Phony missing ammunition in Iraq story
Incessant negative media coverage of Iraq
"Shock and Awe" Bush bashing
Hardly any negative stories about John Kerry.

Prepare for much worse from the liberal media when Hillary runs in '08.

It is coming to light that pro-life, pro-family voters voted for Kerry because they felt so strongly that the Bush Administration was lied to in the run-up to the Iraq war.

GWB's natural constituency voted for the opposition to register disapproval of the coterie of secular/atheist neocons----- dubbed the Taliban of Secularism -----embedded in the Pentagon.

Conservative voters considered their Kerry votes to be singularly principled in that they voted against the self-serving neocons' rank humanism and atheism.

This underscores the fact that Mr Bush's socko 2004 victory would have been even greater had it not been for the humanist/atheist neocons’ treacherous behavior: burdening President Bush with phony intel.

In retrospect, we can only ponder how huge the Bush 2004 win would have been if the agenda-driven neocons hadn't sandbagged Mr Bush.