He'll probably weasel that he was talking about the hypothetical possibility of having won the 2004 election.
"Could have went?" Then they say Bush is dumb.
I do have to wonder though, in a parallel universe, how would President Kerry's party be doing as we approached his first mid term? I suspect the GOP would have been poised for some big gains. That would have been one little silver lining if he had won in '04.
Well, that is the obvious interpretation.