Reply #85: I happened to mention to my daughter the other day [View All]

[ginnyinWI]

how close it was, and that Kerry got more votes than Gore, more votes than Clinton, more votes than any other candidate except *, and she got wide-eyed: "But Gore really won last time! And Kerry got more votes??!"

She is a fairly well-informed 22 year old, and didn't realize the sheer volume of votes in this last election. Kerry won everywhere but the South, and won a lot of age groups and minority groups: Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Jews, Gays, Youth 18-29, Independents, Moderates.
Outside of the South, he won 252 out of 377 electoral votes, which is 2/3. All we need to do is work on getting more of those votes. (Personally, I would just give up on the South, but then I'm not the head of the DNC!)