The Map

More on the elections later, but for now, it is instructive to observe this county-by-county voting map from USA Today.



They old conventional wisdom is that the Democrats are the party of the little guy and the working man, and the Republicans are the party of the fat cats.



The objective fact of the Map puts that to rest decisively.



Kerry only won in the metropolises; Bush swept rural and small-town America.



The counties won by Bush represent 80% of the landmass of the country, containing 60% of the population.



As an aside, if I were some ancient person attempting to devise a more representative system of governance than heredity, would give an electoral weight to the favorite candidate of each province proportional to its landmass, rather than to its population (as the our current system partly does)! Because, after all, the King and the Land are One.



Under its current leadership, the Democrats have clearly become the party of urbanites and the new-money rich. They raised and spent more money than the Republicans, with larger support from elites such as Trial Lawyers, Wall Streeters, and celebrities. George Soros, for example, threw away at least $25 million on the Kerry campaign, that we know of.



Therefore, it was just absurd that Kerry, a billionaire (unearned!) and euroweenie, would at all resonate as some pseudo-populist champion of the Common Man, which used to be the archetypical role of the Democrats.



One good thing we've learned from this decisive, historic election (and it shattered a great deal of myths to be discussed later) is that the system works -- you can't just buy an election, even with a scandalously partisan media shilling your position.



In other words, you can't fool all the people all of the time! Who knew?



You can't just fabricate issues, you have to have a coherent vision that goes beyond reflexive contrariness.



Tactics alone won't work.



You need strategery.