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re: Too bad
Tom Brosz — (archived)

a. Your understanding of the term "lame duck" is incorrect. Go look it up.

b. Bush won a larger percentage of the vote in almost every state than he did in 2000, and this with an unpopular war, a slow-recovering economy, and four years of the most intense barrage of furious attacks from the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, the entertainment culture, and many others. A level of hostility that I have not seen since Reagan.

c. The Republicans picked up seats in both the House and Senate.

This is the equivalent to me of winning a marathon while wearing cement boots. You don't have to call it a mandate if you don't want. But despite throwing everything in the book at Bush, the Democrats still lost by over three million votes.

Oh, by the way, if Kerry had gotten Indiana and become President with over three million fewer popular votes than Bush, would that have made him an "illegitimate president?" Explain.

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