I wonder...would Gore have done better this year?

[regnaD kciN]

I suspect so, but I'm wondering how everyone else feels.

[LightTheMatch]

1. good question

Last night towards the end of the night I was thinking a lot about how things might have turned out differently if had a ticket made up of southern and wester/southwestern candidates.

[MisterP]

2. Edwards is from N.C., which is a southern state

[ObaMania]

4. ... and he delivered absolutely nothing.

.. unless Kerry was disliked so much all over the US that it was the team that helped hold on to the blue states we were lucky to get.

[liberalpragmatist]

7. My guess is Edwards didn't help b/c people dont' vote for VP

I think had Edwards been the nominee we would've done better in the South and among values-oriented voters. That said, I think Edwards would've been clobbered on national security and still lost.

Clark was probably the most electable candidate on paper, but he was too unseasoned.

[PATRICK]

3. No. No one.

There was no one who could take away Bush's free hand. No one in the world stronger than Kerry. No way of getting truth out to the too human masses.

If we got some star that magically overcame the cheating because the fraud was unsustainable in public opinion it would be CLOSE. He would robbed of his(her) full legitimacy. Or shot. That is what i think when I remember RFK's son calmly talking about victory- in the same breath as he touted the good points of the Gropenfuhrer's envirnmental policy.

Bobbie never got it either and back then the only way to deal with it was the bullet.

How nice that today we have BBV. No mess. We can just humiliate and defeat our best heros while the scum condmens us all to misery and death.

After every defeat I hear the same stuff(polite word) about the next Messiah. That never happened. Clinton just showed up and capitalized on opportune circumstances. They retooled. We sighed and relaxed at the dawn of reason.

It will get much much worse. That is all I can see. The Justice system is gone with all the rest. I am feeling forced despair. I do not choose fantasies to replace the truth.

Arnold or Jeb, for example has a better chance in all reality now than any other human in America of becoming President. I said better and that is pretty demonstrable.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Kerry did a good job.

I won't take that away from him. But, he really wasn't a fighter. Too much of a polished gentleman.

We needed someone not just saavy, but scrappy. One who will lay it all on the line until the last vote was counted.

[redherring]

6. Al Gore would have lost

We should have nominated Wesley Clark as our presidential candidate. He is a Southerner from Arkansas, a swing state....He would probably have won this whole thing.
But Kerry was a good candidate. A Northerner will however have a hard time winning down there in the South. That's why most of our recent democrat presidents have been from the South. Dukakis, for example.