He didn't win because he did not get enough votes. He didn't get enough votes because Americans are smarter than he gave them credit for being.
Well said!
A lot has been made about "moral values" being the number one issue and Karl Rove did note that this issue rose from 16% to 22%.
But it isn't true that "moral values" was the number one issue. Look at the poll numbers again:
moral values (22 percent)
economy/jobs (20 percent)
terrorism (19 percent)
Iraq (15 percent).
The people who did this poll for the MSM are no doubt liberals because liberals don't want people to know that fighting in "Iraq" the fight against "terrorism" and are THE SAME ISSUE. Iraq is an itegral part of the War on Terror! If you add the percentages of the two you get 34%. So terrorism/Iraq was by far the most important issue for the voters.
Why did I vote for Bush? Many reasons but the main one is that Kerry scared the hell out of me! I think he would have abandoned Iraq the way he abandoned South Vietnam and he wouldn't have done a bloody thing to stop an attack before it happened. He'd just hope the FBI or CIA would stubble on to something.