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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (667714)	1/9/2005 11:53:39 AM
From: SGJ	Respond to of 769670

Hi JDN, Geographic area is not a contest, popular and electoral votes are though. Bush did not win a convincing enough majority in either to classify his reelection as a mandate. Sorry maybe next time. cato.org No Mandate: The Anti-Kerry Election by David Boaz David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and author of Libertarianism: A Primer. Why was this presidential election so negative? Because each candidate's best argument was to point to the other candidate. Rarely does a president spend so much of his own time attacking and ridiculing a mere challenger, but President Bush realized early on that he couldn't win reelection on the basis of his own record. From the Iowa caucuses to the Democratic National Convention to Election Day, it's clear that the real passion among Democrats was to defeat Bush, not to elect John Kerry. In the end, "not Kerry" edged out "not Bush." Were it not for the relative unattractiveness of Kerry and his old-fashioned liberal agenda, Bush would have lost. President Bush and Karl Rove's strategy almost backfired. Especially this year, they decided to take libertarian voters for granted and go all-out for social conservatives. Unconcerned about supporters of small government, Bush spent taxpayers' money faster than any president since Lyndon Johnson. He didn't veto a single bill in four years (the last president with that record was John Quincy Adams, the last son of a president to serve one term and then be defeated.) He federalized education, expanded the welfare state, increased farm subsidies, restricted civil liberties and signed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulation bill that he knew was unconstitutional.