Reasons Why George W. Bush became President.

[coloradodem2005]

According to a noder on everything2.com

Because you can buy an election.
Almost every election goes to the person with more money to spend on the campaign. It's a sad thing, and some might think that the candidate gets more money because they are more popular to being with. I would disagree, as I've seen campaigns turn around from losing to winning after getting a large influx of cash.

George W. Bush had a lot more campaign money than Al Gore did.


Because you can buy votes.
You're not directly allowed to buy votes from people. But you can skirt around this simply by making promises to do things after being elected which do the same thing. Offer tax cuts - that's a direct incentive for many people, since they can quantify it.

Bush promised one heck of a tax cut. Seeming aimed right at the middle class which are usually the swing voters, as the wealthy go, almost unanimously to the republicans, and the poor are pretty much the same for the democrats.


Because "margin of error" is mainly used in statistics and science and thus not understood or relevant to most people.
Every single manufacturer of voting machines has a published margin of error in the results of their machines. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I've seen them, and that margin of error was quite a bit greater than the win margin Bush had. Thus those numbers are meaningless for determining the outcome. However, manual recounts were not properly performed to get more accurate numbers.


Because it was considered a vote against Clinton by people who saw him as the anti-christ.
Many republicans had what seemed to be a vendetta against Clinton while he was in office. Some may disagree, but I watched everything that happened. They seemed to attack him with a ferocity unrivaled in recent years. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Bush got a large number of votes that were not meant for him, but simply against Gore as a continuation of Clinton.

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[displacedtexan]

1. Actually...

George W. is just padding his resume.

He wants to be baseball commissioner.

Just take a look at the idiots to whom he's awarded ambassadorships...

[NC_Nurse]

2. I've heard lot of people at work

say things about how taxes will go up if Kerry wins and I just want to scream! Nurses don't make that much and it's only people who make over $200,000 a year that he plans to roll back the tax cut for.
I can't believe how they just buy into the Bush campaign jargon about that stuff. It's really discouraging. I don't argue with people since I'm a Per Diem float and not part of the crowd. They seem to be pretty close-minded about it.

I feel pretty defeated by it all today. :cry:

[porphyrian]

7. Possible Approach

First, don't let it get you too down. Barring some extreme circumstances, we're going to take these guys out of office. There's just too many of us, if we can get out the vote. Just look at how many people there are here at DU, all of us are voting against these bastards.

As for your co-workers, it may not be worth the effort for you, but you could always try responding to their comments with something like "You know, I heard Kerry was only going to roll back taxes on people with an income over $200,000. I wonder who's telling the truth." Then, look it up on the Kerry website. If they say they don't trust politicians, ask why they trust Bush then.

[DoBotherMe]

8. If there is a democrat

in the White House we WILL have an economic recovery. Yes, taxes on those with adjusted gross INCOMES (not wages) of $200,000 will pay more taxes but the rest of us including nurses will keep our tax cuts. But even so, the taxcut accounting is flawed ... it's being paid through the sale of government paper to foriegn (China) governments increasing both the deficit and debt. And the same thing is happening at the micro level...people are using credit to finance their day to day expenses and also dipping into savings. There is no economic growth and therefore no increase in wages or any mobility for workers, your coworkers have no where to go to increase their income unless they increase the hours of work or work a second job. And I bet their share of health insurance premiums has increased or coverage has decreased or deductibles increased. In addition, the * WH has no economic plan, none ... soon your BSNs and RNs will be working at CNA wages ... count on it. My business partner told me yesterday that one of his other businesses (he's one of 12 owners)has restated projected revenues for this year from $15 million to $7 million, they are beginning the first round of layoffs. There is no upside to another four years of status quo ... only further decline. Dana ; )

[Manix]

3. BushCo preys on the misinformed and the ignorant.

[Snoggera]

6. And to paraphrase

There's another one born every minute.

[billybob537]

4. If he kept some of those promises

he wouldn't need so much money!!!!

[2Design]

5. Our Congresspeople did not speak up and fight for what was right

Al Gore won the election ...but no one had the 'balls' to stand up to GOP and media machine.....

[alphafemale]

9. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, AP

Something like that.