From the Washington Monthly: Why? Why didn't he make a bigger deal out of his plan to increase the size of the Army by 40,000 troops? Why didn't he make a bigger deal out of his desire to get tougher with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? Why didn't he make a bigger deal about George Bush's unwillingness to confront the Arab world over their continued funding of radical madrassas?
That's the maddening part. Kerry had good, effective ideas about how to deal with things (subs only, sorry). Now the lunatics are in charge again!
The bottom line is this: amongst voters who might actually have changed their votes, the key issue was security from terrorism. Kerry didn't win enough of these people to (1) change the dynamic of the campaign, or (2) put pressure on Bush.
Posted by robe0419 at November 10, 2004 1:51 PM