The Next Four Years....

The election results are out, and George “Dubya” Bush came out tops to become the Most Powerful Man in the World for a second term. I normally wouldn’t bother too much about politics, but strangely enough, this election really tickled my fancy.

There were a couple of things I learned through observing this election. One of them is that you’ve got to be sort of a “redneck” in order to win Presidential Votes. Deny Gays legal marriages, have loose gun laws, be pro-war and restrict stem cell research…. that ought to win you the southern states, and eventually enough electoral votes to win you the presidency.

Kerry, who was more of the liberal, won over most of the east and west coast, including the Midwest Region, while Bush won pretty much everywhere else. In the end, everything boiled down to Ohio, one of the Midwest states. While the other surrounding states were pretty much with the Democrats, the Buckeye State went with Bush, securing his position as the top man. At least they got it right in Florida this time.

I was a little disappointed with the results. I wanted Kerry to win. I wanted someone different. I guess the media’s ploy to expound on Bush’s weaknesses worked on me. Yes, so Michael Moore tends to sensationalize a lot, but he had hard facts. If not, he’d be swimming in a sea of lawsuits. And what happened to the Presidential Debates? Didn’t Kerry give Bush a lashing? Did it all come to nothing?

In the end, I believe it all boiled down to the moral values that these two candidates represented. Kerry might have been a Catholic, but he’s pro-choice by supporting abortion. And who could forget how he lied about his time in Vietnam? So the majority of America goes for the dear War President. Which brings me to the question of, was America ready to oust the president of a country currently at war? Were they ready to reshuffle the administration in such a time as this?

I guess not. The more pressing issue right now is uniting a country that is so obviously divided. This election really uncovered that America was pretty much split down the middle. So how does the winner win over the voters he didn’t have on his side before? Stay tuned...