Silly comment ... If the election were held in May, April, or early August, Kerry would have won.
If you want to make the GOP a majority party and Democrats a minority party, you've got to work to make it happen.
If the dems hadn't put forth their most lib candidate, this race might have been theirs. Don't forget; Bill Clinton was able to be packaged as a moderate. Not so with kerry.
Well of course. Because the Republicans weren't drawing attention to themselves at the time. We were just coming out of the Democratic Primaries and John Kerry was trying (and still is) to define himself...as soon as the Republicans started campaigning, things began the turnaround. If the election were held in May, the Republicans would have started campaigning in January and we might be looking at the same polls we are now.
In any event, while I don't agree with the original poster that we'll never see a Democratic President in our lifetime (I have a hard time swallowing that after seeing Clinton get re-elected), I do agree that WHEN they lose in November, it'll be a long-term blow to them. They will have to redefine their party to get the message out that voters want to hear...and one that doesn't change from day to day. If they cannot do that, they will continue to lose.
People are not quite comfortable with the far right policies but they are LESS comfortable with far left policies. Further, the eleite Democrat Circle, doesn't seem to want to let in anyone who is NOT liberal. Case-in-point, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, and other like them are the power in the Democratic party. Whereas the Republicans have Bush, Cheney, Powell, Frist, and others with sider ranging views. More people can relate to them.
The elite left have to promote their moderates like Lieberman in order to start making a larger connection to the American Demographic.