I don't have much to add to what's already been said. This is another American who is appalled by the fact that so many of my fellow-citizens support someone who has lied to us, who blatantly favors his fellow plutocrats, who is not very intelligent, who is arrogant, and -- most of all -- who continues to insist that the bloody debacle in Iraq is somehow good for our country -- or anyone.

I think he wins because he exploits fear. Somehow the fact that our soldiers are "over there" holding guns and sheddig blood translates into some peoples' minds that we are safer here. (Never mind the fact that the guy behind 9/11 is still at large.) Then there is the fear of homosexuals and the whole "defense of marriage" campaign. People listen to Bush's rhetoric and choose to believe that he will protect them from the bogeymen.