Well we know that Oregon, New York and other intelligent states choose Kerry. It's the older population who fears terroism and believe in the old values, the so call Evangelicals. Running on a campaign that promise security against Terroist and creating fear in the people works. Some one I heard on the radio compared this to George Orwell's 1984. He quoted a passage which I can't remember but it was something about going to war with Eurasia and fighting them just to keep a society going, functioning and the reason for the war was long forgotten.

my friend wrote this:

PS. Why is it that intelligent people are in the minority in this
country?
How is it that our President can sit back holier-than-thou on his
pro-life
laurels, yet boast an execution record as Governor of TX that is
higher than
any other Governor in US history? And how can he claim to support
less
government and more power to the people, yet at the same time bolster
an
Administration's efforts to ban marriage between two people who love
each
other just because it doesn't gel with his religious ideals? Zealot
bastard. Are we all blind, people?!? Ok, I'm done... Who wants to
go get a
drink tonight?

Is there a different degree of being a pro life? Can you be for life but punish those criminals by taking away their lives? I belive yes. you can be pro life because it's a new life with a potential for good. Where as a criminals life has proven to be evil. However, do we still have the right to take away that crimnal's life? These questions can lead to dangerous meditations. What if there is a method to find out that a new life had criminal tendencies in their genes? Does the people in power have the right to execute a potential life because the society believes that the life has potential for crimes. this raises the question that is life of a criminal nurtured or nature. The environment certainly has a factor.