<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=SergioL652@aol.com href="mailto:SergioL652@aol.com">SergioL652@aol.com</A> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>And he LOST!!!!</DIV> <DIV>I see this election as a repudiation by the American People of any progressive values.  The fact that Kerry ran a kind of populist campaign and lost despite running against a president who is widely perceived as a failure should put to rest any notion that the American public is receptive to any progressive message.</DIV></FONT> <P>--- <P>This kind of talk really makes no sense. Kerry lost 51 to 48. That's not a landslide, it's not even a 'decisive defeat.' 48% of the voters picked Kerry. And the margin was only 3%, meaning you only would have had to shange the minds of 1.5% of the voters and Kerry would have won. <P>  <P>Seth</P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>