Red and Blue

David Warren writes:

The American electorate is not voting blind. They are choosing between two men who are, in character, deeply representative of their respective constituencies. The manners, mores, and rhetoric of Mr. Bush resonate with conservative, rural and suburban "Middle America". This America is not indifferent to him; it loves him. The manners, mores, and rhetoric of Mr. Kerry resonate with the more liberal and urban America of the edges. (You see these constituencies in a glance at the red/blue distribution on a map of the states; it becomes clearer still when the map is further subdivided into counties.) And this America does not love Kerry. It hates Bush.

I think that this is a very accurate statement. Tomorrow's election is all about one man, and that is George W. Bush. If you believe in Bush's vision of how to fight the War on Terror, you will probably vote for him. If you don't, you won't. The old aphorism is you can't beat something with nothing. I think that it is likely it will turn out that you can't beat Bush with not-Bush. We'll see though.