Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Tin Soldiers and Bush coming...
I'm sick.
As one wag on a liberal blog comment board quipped: "if [the Dems] can't beat the worst president ever, we don't deserve to be a party."
Seriously, I don't even know what to say. There was record high voter turnout but the rate of youth voting was unchanged and obviouly all these new voters didn't cut for Kerry as conventional wisdom had speculated.
While I won't lie and say Kerry ran a stellar campaign or was a charismatic enough figure to win the election on his own strength, I thought the ABBA sentiment was strong and widespread enough that a Democratic victory was assured. Obviously I was wrong. Unbelievably, somehow a majority of voters looked at Bush's record, thought it was good and felt comfortable enough to give him their support for four more years of the same. Moving forward the Democratic party is gonna have to do some real soul searching and message reengineering because what they're offering right now is either not compelling or clear enough and is connecting with fewer and fewer people.
The only minor comfort I can take is that Bush will now have to fix his own messes and, unfortunately for him, they are monumental. But after winning the popular vote, gaining an even more solid majority in the Senate and maintaining one in the House, expect Bush and Republicans to try and really get wild with their legislative agenda moving forward.
And I thought I could use this blog now to talk about cool fun sh1t like Green Lantern mixtapes and great new albums. Instead the battle goes on and the next four years (or as long as I bother to keep doing this site) will continue the mission of exposing the real behind the travesty that is the Bush administration.
Man, maybe I need to cop of pair of these and just head home 'cos my spirits are pretty low right now.
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As one wag on a liberal blog comment board quipped: "if [the Dems] can't beat the worst president ever, we don't deserve to be a party."
Seriously, I don't even know what to say. There was record high voter turnout but the rate of youth voting was unchanged and obviouly all these new voters didn't cut for Kerry as conventional wisdom had speculated.
While I won't lie and say Kerry ran a stellar campaign or was a charismatic enough figure to win the election on his own strength, I thought the ABBA sentiment was strong and widespread enough that a Democratic victory was assured. Obviously I was wrong. Unbelievably, somehow a majority of voters looked at Bush's record, thought it was good and felt comfortable enough to give him their support for four more years of the same. Moving forward the Democratic party is gonna have to do some real soul searching and message reengineering because what they're offering right now is either not compelling or clear enough and is connecting with fewer and fewer people.
The only minor comfort I can take is that Bush will now have to fix his own messes and, unfortunately for him, they are monumental. But after winning the popular vote, gaining an even more solid majority in the Senate and maintaining one in the House, expect Bush and Republicans to try and really get wild with their legislative agenda moving forward.
And I thought I could use this blog now to talk about cool fun sh1t like Green Lantern mixtapes and great new albums. Instead the battle goes on and the next four years (or as long as I bother to keep doing this site) will continue the mission of exposing the real behind the travesty that is the Bush administration.
Man, maybe I need to cop of pair of these and just head home 'cos my spirits are pretty low right now.
