In an election where the economy was still struggling back, jobs were still not where they were at their peak, an unpopular war was running overseas, and oil prices were at an all-time high,

Where Bush was attacked by television, best-selling books and films, the media unleashed every negative story they could dig up, the Democratic Party fired every political weapon in their arsenal, and anti-Bush groups spent tens of millions of dollars to destroy him...

Bush still beat the Democratic candidate by well over three million votes, and the Republicans picked up seats in both the Senate and the House.

The Left and the media would die before they admitted to anything other than a grudging "razor-thin victory," but they know as well as everyone else that they got their asses kicked into hamburger on November 2.