The Other Shoe

...but now he's looking more like the next Al Gore...

...without the added charm of having won the popular vote.

Perhaps by 2008 the Democratic Party will have figured out one of two things. How to win a presidential election...or how to lose one with a little grace and at least a shred of dignity.

Perhaps.

UPDATE: Written Wednesday night; I agree with one of the comments below that Kerry's concession speech was handled gracefully. Indeed, the decision to concede was a wise and dignified gesture. Senator Edwards' remarks, on the other hand, were in my view neither graceful nor diginified. It is my opinion that is is very good for our country that, come January, we will not have John Edwards to kick around anymore.

-posted by Charlie Eklund 

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• #2 Comment from sharkie412 
  11/3/04 2:22 PM | Permalink

  I must have been watching a different channel. I thought that yes the democrats leaned heavily on the exit polls, but a Kerry aide did confess that yes they were extremely wrong with that. In his speech to concede victory to Bush, Kerry talked of how the votes were binding and there was no possible way to win and is now conceding victory to Bush.
  This country is so divided right now. Kerry has urged his supporters to find common ground with our President. I don't see how this doesn't have a little grace and diginity to it. There were some mistakes made on both campaigns. This year the popular vote reflected the electoral college results. Remember if we didn't have an electoral college and went just with a popular vote, Bush wouldn't have won in 2000.
  If people are going to continue to point fingers and be sore losers and winners...there isn't going to be any hope of uniting a divided country. I hope that everyone republican or democrat or whatever they may be will be working to unite the country...not push away the chance because they are too stupid to see that we are divided and need everyone to take a step to find that common ground.
• #1 Comment from imposterx8 
  11/3/04 9:47 AM | Permalink

  I'm astounded by the Dems reaction to the voting numbers not matching with the exit polls.  They seem to think that the exit polls should be a more accurate predictor of the vote than the actual votes themselves.  There's already conspiracy theories cropping up.  How's this for a simple explanation?  The exit polls were wrong.   That's probably due to faulty methodology, but I suppose some people might have not told the truth to the pollsters.  Whatever the reason, it shouldn't be that hard to understand that the votes themselves are binding, not the exit polls.