Sugarsprinkles,

While the Democrats did take a serious hit in this election, I don’t see it really as a debacle, they’ll come back. The political process needs it. The American public will demand it. Incumbents are notoriously difficult to unseat, Senator Kerry knew that. Senator Daschle’s defeat was most unusual. The next year will be a time of wound-licking and reflection – and then, inevitably, there will be an opening – there always is.

I too am pleased that President Bush not only won the Electoral College for a second time (which is after all, the vote that counts), but the also the popular vote. This will mute, although I doubt for long, the critics of his policies. They now have received the stamp of popular approval, some three and a half million of them.

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Eudaimonia