Reply #33: Funny I have the exact opposite perspective.

[GettysbergII]

I have very little faith in the judgement of the American public- and that's putting it mildly.

Of course I live in an integrated community on the southside of Chicago and teach in a 90% poverty Chicago Public School.

Further, I believe that Kerry's stances on the Iraq War, outsourcing jobs, NCLB, etc were directed more at appeasing the ruling class than appealing to the working class. His campaign was a bunch of bullshit that we all went along with to get rid of Bush. I certainly wasn't happy with it and I doubt most working people were.

I think any Democratic candidate would lose a good proportion of the vote (30%) to fundamentalism and racism/zenophobia/homophobia, and another 10% because Bush does offer more immediate benefits to the ruling class and those who identify with the ruling class. (This is particularly true among white males by the way.) But other than that the other 60% of the population's interests are for a more liberal and democratic government despite the flaws in Kerry's campaign and I believe the majority of Americans voted that way and by a wide enough margin to be a landslide.