I’m listening to John Kerry’s concession speech as I’m writing this post. There’s a very discernible tear in his voice. He’s been quite warm, genuine, and gracious. As with Al Gore in 2000, nothing has become his race so much as his leaving it. I really believe that if either of these guys had campaigned with the same tone and emotion as they had in their concession speeches, they’d have won their elections.
UPDATE: Apparently, I’m not the only one who’s thought this way.
Al Gore did win his.
I’m sorry, darren, but Al Gore was not elected to the presidency. He won the popular vote but that is not enough under our system. That’s not a partisan statement. It is a fact. And no remedy sought by Gore/Lieberman in the courts would have given him the electoral votes. This has been determined by multiple non-partisan studies. Al Gore lost the 2000 election.