Politics 10 Nov 2004 03:41 pm
US election
I guess I should post something about the results of the US election. I was expecting a close result (closer that what actually happened), and I was fully expecting Bush to win (but hoping he wouldn’t). Looking at the several result maps out there, it’s very clear that Bush won on the rural, sparsely populated areas and in the largely evangelical area in the middle of the country. Both coasts and most large centers voted overwhemingly for Kerry. A friend of mine said that many voters went out to vote against gay marriages and ended up voting for Bush as well, which does seem plausible.
I don’t think this victory is an approval of the Iraq war, or of Bush’s foreign and economic policies, even though he’ll act as if were; rather, it was a victory for conservative moral values (the cover of Newsweek about one year ago was already about the “new” religious America; couldn’t find it online now) and for more government intrusion on personal lifestyle choices. Sad, really. Such a nice Constitution, being treated this way…
