"Remember, Kerry was running against an incumbent president with an approval rating below 50%."
I never believed that President Bush's approval rating dropped below 50%.
No matter what the polls and Old Media has told us.
Kerry effectively obliterated all the known shibboleths about elections and what's required to win them: having an opponent with low positives, an avalanche of money (527's), debate stature, being a smooth talker, an opponent tarred with high negatives in the person of Soros, Michael Moore and the Hollyweirdos, Kitty Kelly, Richard Clarke, forged TANG documents, and so on, and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.