[CatOwner]

I've grown tired of this excuse. Kerry is an extremely weak candidate, and Bush should be handling him easily. Kerry has no positive legislative record to speak of, a very liberal voting record, numerous question marks about his post-Vietnam actions, and quite frankly is a very ugly person (inside and out).

No more F'ing excuses!

[Soul Seeker]

Excuse?

These are legitimate factors that have affected the population. If all you can respond with is that it is an "excuse", you choose to disregard-

1) MSM attempts to dilute and distort the messages of Both candidates. For the President, to impact negatively. For the Senator, to project a positive image.

2) Hollywood's perception it isn't "cool" to vote for Bush.

3) The uncertainties natural in war escalated by one Party for political gain, playing to the uncertainty by suggesting the comfortable illusion it could be solved by a replacement in the W.H.

4) A grudge (hatred) that has built for 4 years over the fact their candidate narrowly lost an election.

There are many factors explaining why this isn't a natural election, but it certainly isn't an "excuse". feel free to disregard those factors, though, if it suits you to believe they are incompetent even while up in most MSM polls.