Mr. Bush secured re-election. It was the first re-election of a Republican candidate since President Reagan, 20 years ago. Bush won the popular vote by a wide margin as well as the electoral-vote count (a difference of about 3.5 million votes), so it can be said that America endorsed Mr. Bush’s Iraq policy and other policies. At the same time, it was an election that clearly revealed America’s local character: Mr. Kerry in the cities of the East and West, and Mr. Bush elsewhere. There also seem to be statistics contrasting people who have passports with those who do not. Several of my friends are seriously talking about emigrating to Canada. I have also heard that the number of Americans considering an application to immigrate to Canada temporarily became 6 times the usual level after the presidential election.
The Democratic Party’s cause of defeat was surely its choice of candidate Kerry. It makes the issues terribly unclear.
Incidentally, the betting says that the next presidential candidate will be Jeff Bush. If he were to serve 2 terms, we would have Bush I (4 years), Clinton (8 years), Bush II (8 years), and Bush III (8 years)—it would start to feel like a Bush dynasty.
Every country requires historical accumulation. The United States, which is said to have a de facto aristocracy in which 100 white people hold real power, may also need to overcome a full-fledged dynastic era before reaching true democracy. :hammer:
(*) This election accelerated the trend toward an even more money-driven election than the previous one. Some Americans are even saying that, since it is now an election of who spent how much money, the result would not change if candidates simply competed over how much they collected in donations and did away with the election. Needless to say, such money-driven elections mean that policies preferred by the people who made donations will be adopted. This, in turn, means waging “war” on “countries that possess oil fields.” The military industry needs war. Finally, there is a view that, because of this structure, policy would not change even if Mr. Kerry became president. Differences would ultimately appear in areas such as abortion, but on fundamentals such as war and anti-environmentalism, things would probably not change. It may be said that this is why the focus became blurred and he suffered such a decisive defeat.
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