Reply #39: JK made a few mistakes but he wasn't the reason bush won. [View All]

[ncteechur]

Kerry losing and bush winning are not necessarily the same thing. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Repubs have figured out how to convince the electorate that what they're selling is what they need to buy. That salesmanship uses wedge issues and negative advertising to close the sale. One issue voters (abortion, gay marriage, gun rights) all belong to the repubs and unfortunately there are more one-two issue voters than we would like to think. Until we brek that stranglehold or until the country changes, we will have a very difficult time winning. And I don't know which will happen first. Although Nader wasn't a factor as much in this election as in 2000, he repubs argue that Perot did the same thing to Bush sr. in 1992. I don't know what the answer is. We will have to figure out how to keep wedge issues out or capture a few for ourselves. Obviously, it's not going to be the same ones we have used in the past like Social Security.