Does anyone else suspect that the DNC has been a "game changer" for this election?

[karynnj]

20. I think what many of us didn't know was how mush a long shot 2004 really was

Beachmom posted this article that someone had posted on twitter shows that Kerry did outperform what models would have predicted. Bush's approval rating and the economy gave him a good chance of being re-elected.

That did not count:
- the fact that 911 bonded many people to Bush who had not been there before
- the fact that he and Cheney terrorized people with false alerts because it led people to rally
around Bush
- The Catholic church and corporations knew that the winner could nominate 2+ SCJ - including replacing at least one conservative who was dying. Kerry would never have picked anyone who would vote for Citizens United.
- The media covered his biography, which was - even for a Presidential nominee - extraordinary and limited his direct TV exposure to just the 3 hours of the convention and the debates.
- 23 states had homophobic resolutions on the ballot to get the RW evangelicals out.
- He bowed to the media, party and his advisers in picking John Edwards, who then refused to cooperate with the campaign.

In spite of all of that, had the Republican SoS in Ohio not suppressed the vote by putting fewer machines than were there for the primary, he would have pulled off what might have been the greatest upset in decades.