Question for Cavuto
Someone go ask Neil if he still believes they're wearing Kerry buttons.
"You can elect Bush, Kerry or Satan himself, it doesn't matter to us," [al-Zawahiri] said. "What's important to us is the U.S. policies toward Muslims."
Bush, Kerry, or Satan, all the same. Maybe Bin Laden & Co. would have preferred Nader.
Extension: I actually do believe that the Bin Laden video immediately preceding the election had an effect. Much is being said these days about the effect the Christian vote had, and certainly it must have had some impact owing to the fact that--purely by the numbers--a greater amount of them showed up to vote. But in percentage terms, of the total voting population about half as many were Christians this time around than during the 1996 re-election of Bill Clinton! No, I'd say that there may have been numerous folks in red states, as well as in swing states like Ohio that may not have felt inclined to vote this time around. I'm thinking of Republican-leaning people who for one reason or another didn't want to give Bush their vote this time around. They went to work that day, and in the course of the day heard the exit polls that had John Kerry ahead. At that point, the Osama video resurfaced in their memory, and what was there to counteract the impulse to go to the polling place on the way home and vote Bush? Certainly not the abismal confusion of the Vietnam story. Not the inability of Kerry to clearly criticise Bush on the Iraq war. And, with 75% of the population believing that they are either already in or imminently about to be included in the "top 1% of wage earners" also not the tax increase. Late in the day, that's probably what swayed the vote, if not just the popular vote, but maybe also in states like Ohio. (and yes, that was a criticism of Kerry, though I clearly still voted for him)
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