TexasDevilDog
02-01-2005, 09:27 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49843-2005Jan30.html
Kerry Praises Campaign, Plans to Build on Effort
Democrat Wants to Keep 2008 Options Open
By John F. HarrisWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 31, 2005; Page A02
Former Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry said the popular support President Bush garnered in the immediate wake of Sept.11, 2001, and the reluctance of voters to "shift horses in midstream" during wartime were the main reasons he lost the November election.
But Kerry, in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday, praised his own campaign for coming close, and said he intends to "build on the campaign" by continuing to be a leading voice of the opposition.
"I lost, Tim, to an incumbent president by a closer margin than an incumbent president has ever won reelection before in the history of the country," the Massachusetts senator told NBC's Tim Russert. "And if you add up the popular vote in the battleground states, I won the popular vote in the battleground states by two percentage points. We just didn't distribute it [voter fraud] correctly in Ohio."
Kerry Praises Campaign, Plans to Build on Effort
Democrat Wants to Keep 2008 Options Open
By John F. HarrisWashington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 31, 2005; Page A02
Former Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry said the popular support President Bush garnered in the immediate wake of Sept.11, 2001, and the reluctance of voters to "shift horses in midstream" during wartime were the main reasons he lost the November election.
But Kerry, in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday, praised his own campaign for coming close, and said he intends to "build on the campaign" by continuing to be a leading voice of the opposition.
"I lost, Tim, to an incumbent president by a closer margin than an incumbent president has ever won reelection before in the history of the country," the Massachusetts senator told NBC's Tim Russert. "And if you add up the popular vote in the battleground states, I won the popular vote in the battleground states by two percentage points. We just didn't distribute it [voter fraud] correctly in Ohio."