okay, the election has soaked in a little better:
let's nominate hillary next time and STOMP the other candidate into the ground.
there are arguments in favor of my own senator Evan Bayh being nominated - he's very moderate, very center and votes with Republicans on moderate issues more than your average senator. his record reflects this and isn't as sporadic as Kerry's. Bayh could draw the middle ground vote and help attract the moderate southerners away from the increasingly fringe-based Republican party.
he was also a governor for 8 years and hit the term governor term limits in Indiana.
i think Bayh stands a better chance of winning simply because he doesn't inspire the same vitriol in the Republicans as Hillary does. but Hillary would cause another enormous turnout because the Reps would be so galvanized to defeat her. and i like a politically active country, even if it works against my own values. it's better than apathy.
Posted by iain at November 5, 2004 09:38 AMI may be a self-defeatist masochist, but I agree. Give me active and informed electorate over apathetic, even if I don't like the immediate results.
Posted by: gms at November 5, 2004 03:03 PM