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America tells Dubya: Keep up the good work!
by
he political organizations of the gay
community, and much of the rank and
file, het heavily on the Democratic
Party in this election and lost hig time.
It will he days or perhaps weeks before all of
the votes are officially tallied and certified, hut
the outline is clear: U.S. Sen. John Kerry,
D-Mass., has conceded, and President Bush has
won re-election.
Republicans padded their majorities in both
the House and Senate.
Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 by about
a half-million votes. This year, with turnout at
an all-time high, he reversed that and appears
to have piled up a popular vote margin of about
3.5 million, more than 51 percent of those cast.
That is a higher percentage than Bill Clinton
managed in either election.
And Bush padded the electoral
vote total as well. Still, the country
remains virtually evenly divided in its
political choices.
Kerry was able to mount a compet
itive campaign in states roughly with
in the triangle stretching from Boston
to Minneapolis to Washington, D.C.,
as well as the West Coast. The rest of
the country went strongly for Bush.
“I would not give up if there was a
chance that we w..< prevail," Kerry
said in his conces a speech Nov. 3.
He spoke of his conversation earlier
that morning with Bush. “We talked
Housing Secretary Mel Martinez won a highly contest about the division in our nation....
Today I hope that we can begin the
ed race for a Senate seat in Florida
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healing.... I plan to do my part to try to bridge the community to keep things in perspective.
the partisan divide.”
“We are reminded that this battle for equality is
He asked his supporters to do the same and not a question of if, hut of when.”
closed with the prayer “God bless America.”
A short time later, at a rally in the Ronald
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Reagan Building, Vice President Dick
Cheney recounted “a record turnout
and a broad nationwide victory.”
Bush acknowledged, “With that
trust comes a responsibility to serve
all Americans, and 1 will do my best
to fulfill that duty every day as your
president." Speaking directly to those
who voted for Kerry, he said: “To
make this nation stronger and better,
I will need your support, and 1 will
work to earn it.... Working together,
there is no limit to the greatness of
America.”
Ralph Nader was not a factor, col
lecting less than 1 percent of the
national vote total, compared with 3
percent in 2000.
“This is a really tough defeat," said Archconservative Tom Cobum claimed lesbianism is so
Cheryl Jacques, president of the rampant at some Oklahoma schools that girls are only
Human Rights Campaign. She urged permitted to go to the bathroom one at a time
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