re: #256 Dark_Falcon
The war didn’t look like it was going poorly in 2004, and George W. Bush had the advantage of incumbency. It is also a fact that Kerry was a much weaker candidate than Obama.
In ‘04 the “short liberation” had begun to morph into the same open-ended occupation that Afghanistan had become by that time. And in retrospect, Kerry’s biggest crime was being a war veteran who’d had an attack of conscience after his service, a cardinal sin to an electorate that was being spoon-fed the “support the troops” pablum.