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How and why Dr. Keyes won in Illinois

By Helen Valois.

"It's great about Bush getting re-elected," my conservative friends have been saying to me these days, "but, hey! You must be bummed about Keyes' big loss in Illinois."

"What 'loss'?" runs my somewhat testy reply.

"The one where he got, like, a quarter of the vote."

"That," I inform them, "was a loss for Illinois, and for the Republican Party, and for the country as a whole, not for Dr. Keyes."

A true genius is being shown here for always looking at the bright side of life. Liberals have a lot to learn from these folks. John Kerry gets the second-largest popular vote total of any Presidential candidate ever, and people want to turn the Democratic party inside out in an effort to cobble together two more percentage points. Alan Keyes stumbles to a defeat of historic proportions, and his supporters declare victory.

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