It's not a black and white issue

Kerry's loss was partly because of the religious right, but it was partly because he is a liberal (I think that's good but the left/Democrats have let the Republicans spend 20 years demonizing the word "liberal" and turning it into a code word for all things bad), and partly because Bush's big corporate donors delivered a lot of cash, and partly because the folks in the "red states" think the folks on the coasts are intellectual snobs and elites, and partly just because Bush is a Republican and Kerry's a Democrat, and Republicans vote for Republicans and Dems vote for Dems (listen to the first segment of the October 30 2004 edition of This American Life if you don't believe that).

Even in California, a strong blue state, more than 40% of the voters went for Bush. In Ohio, a "red state," 48% of the voters went for Kerry.

There's no one thing that really made it all fall apart for the left/Democrats. So there's no simple solution. Just wanted to get that off my chest.