From What Mandate: A Report on the Joint National Post-Election Survey:

A majority of voters backed the president, but they still thought the country was off track and preferred a different direction in America’s relations with the world and on domestic social policy…[T]he public’s priorities are wholly different than those the president put forth in the days after the election. That is particularly clear if one looks at fiscal and tax policies, health care, and Social Security privatization.

(Via DonkeyRising.)

Democrats May Use Results in Colorado as Political Primer (washingtonpost.com):

‘The notion that moral issues won the 2004 election was disproven in Colorado,’ Gates continued. ‘We offered solutions, not ideology, and won almost everything.'”

I took a lot of comfort in the fact that, despite being utterly bummed that Kerry lost the election to an incompetent, evil, arrogant fool on November 2nd, Democrats in Colorado pretty much cleaned up. If we produce some results over the next few years, I’ll predict that my beloved home state will go blue in 2008.