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I dunno guys...most of the people in the US were happy enough to reelect Bush. The electoral vote is of course all that matters, and he got that. The popular vote, which is meaningless really, still went in his favor. He actually got more than 50% of the people, more than Clinton got in either of his victories. To say anything about NY and DC going for Kerry being indictative, that's a laughing matter. These places always go for the democrats because they have a high African American population, loads of people on welfare, and extremely high crime rates (especially DC). These are hardly the places that should represent any candidate.
For some reason, the people feel that Bush is the best man for the job. The war, despite its mistakes and detractors, was a job that had to be done: removing a dictator with access to terror networks and the ability to disperse weapons or use them seems perfectly logical to me. Many people including democrats voted to go to war and would have acted the same way in Bush's position.
Socially, I really don't think Bush is far off from the public. In a large number of states the gay marriage ban passed overwhelmingly. A majority of the public favors abortion only for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. I have no problem with "regression" if that means steps toward social justice such as saving the life of the unborn and preserving an important social institution.
My hopes for the second term: democracy in Iraq and eventual self-government. Continued economic growth through low taxes and business-friendly policies along with the plan to cut the deficit, especially through less spending. Some good judges on the Supreme Court that don't legislate from the bench.
It was an interesting and, if you ask me and most people, fair. There are bound to be little mistakes when you have 120 million people voting. There was so much paranoia on each side i doubt any foul play got through on either side. To say that the machines were rigged is implausible...there is no way this would have escpaed observers and exit polls everywhere, not just FL, were shown to be inaccurate. To continue these fallacies that Bush "stole" the election is exceedingly ridiculous considering that Kerry knew it would be useless to challenge on such baseless accusations. It seems to be a decisive victory and no one on either side at the high levels of politics seems to think that it was won unfairly.
Doom
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