While I agree that a larger margin for the president would have been better, I look at matters this way: the liberal/leftists/socialists threw everything they had at W, from pseudo-documentaries to Ratherist national guard service lies to MSM negative coverage of the war in Iraq, finally ending with the "missing munitions" story that was not (a few tons "missing" - not really, as it turned out - out of really true, either...and the president STILL won reelection, and the Republicans gained in the Senate and House and a governorship as well!
If those who tend to believe MSM half-truths had not been poisoned so relentlessly by the MSM, Michael Moore, Hollywood, and so forth, the margin would have been even greater.
The conclusion is really a happy one. Even with the most powerful propaganda effort, falsehood and enslaving government and elitism and cowardice lost the day; the majority does weigh reports and think for itself. The majority did avail itself of multiple news sources. It chose well.
The nation is safe for four more years.