how? how did a 47% approval rating, a 50+% wrong track = 51% for Bush?

how???

I dont fucking get it.

was our candidate that unlikeable?

I never felt comfortable relying on OH or FL to seal a Kerry victory. FL has jeb and Diebold has wally o'dell (is that his name?).

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no shit, that is what the Bush campaign depended on as the calculus.

They came out en masse. They believe this is going to bring about the rapture. Won't they be surprised when 2008 comes around. :eyes:

Given two candidates that suck, the people chose to keep the devil they knew.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/index.htm

There were obviously a small but significant number of voters out there who didn't think Bush was doing a good job but felt that Kerry would be even worse.

I got very worried late Monday night when I looked at the approval numbers from the final polls. Of the last 6 or 8, only 1 was below 50% and that had it 49%.

That held up according to CNN's exit polling.http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html

If you scroll far down, Bush's approval rating among 13,000+ actual voters was 52 or 53%. The right track/wrong track was actually slightly right track, 49-47. I don't know what changed in the final days or week, but with a 13,000+ nationwide sample there should be virtually zero margin for error.

Kerry's favorable/unfavorable was a pathetic 47/51. I guarantee Edwards' would have been at least reverse of that, on the positive side. It was my reservation about Kerry all along. On DU two years ago I posted Kerry was "just good enough to get you beat."

we made some gains in the youth vote, but not enough to block the evangelical tide.

..because I'm buggered if it makes sense to me....In fact, on a fluff piece with Brian Williams last night on MSRNC he asked basically the same question...

The probable answer is Diebold.

and the Christo-fascists had a better GOTV apparatus then we did.

the Democratic Party needs to make itself relevant to the 40% who didn't vote as well the 29% who voted for Kerry. Only 10% of 18-24yos voted. We need to get them on board as they have the most loose (well those that aren't killed in one of Bush's crazy wars in the next 4 years.)

if we can soften on guns I think we can make ohio perma-blue.

Scared to make a change during wartime.

DTH

We needed strength and principles. We got doubletalk and pandering that was called "electability".

have the votes!

but cant be proven, so we may as well drop it

That's what took Ohio away from Kerry.