Oh, and folks, let's all be honest about this, Bush won this election for a very simple reason. He won because the Democrats couldn't provide someone that the nation saw as being any better. At best, this country was content with Bush. His approval rating shows that. No one was so thrilled with him that they were just dying to re-elect him. Given that situation, all that the Democrats had to was present a candidate that people thought would be appreciably better than Bush. When you're running against the incumbent, unless he is hated, you simply have to do that.
Had the Democrats accomplished this I would have loved to vote for someone that I thought would in some way be better, as would many others. This country has been resided over by mediocre Presidents for far too long. Yes, that will continue under Bush, but frankly, I wouldn't have expected more from Kerry, and that, in the end, was the problem.
