Kerry is not just some politician to me. He is right up there with Jane Fonda in my book. Having a traitor in the Senate is tough for me to take. Having him almost be president was a rough time for me. This guy will draw a pension when he finally retires from the Senate unless he is impeached. I'm 55 years old, so I remember things that younger folks don't have a clue about. How can Carter even peek outside after the debacle of his 4 year reign of terror, but today, he's a statesman? Kennedy will go down as an old patriarch of the Senate, instead of the drunken murderer he is.
If nobody takes care of this stuff now, the history books will paint them as hero's. Kerry is no hero.
Clinton won with 42.7% in 1992
Clinton got 49.2% in 1996 which tore him up because he is doomed to be known forever as never having won by a majority.
Remember those percentages when you hear him described as the political genius of our times.
Bush got 47.9% in 2000 and 50.7% in 2004 which will haunt Clinton for the rest of his life because By defeating Gore in 2000 it repudiated Clinton's "legacy", and Bush broke 50%.
Before Clinton it was Reagan 50.7% in 1980, then Reagan an astounding 58.8% in 1984, then Reagan's legacy vote George H. W. Bush 53.4% in 1988.