His win was far from a lock, and I feel like it would have been so easy to bomb a building and then have someone claim there was residue of whatever. By late 2004 the war was not popular, for a lot of libs "finding" WMDs would have probably justified the most evil thing the US had done in decades, I'm sure.
I was so sure they would serve up an October surprise. When they didn't it really shook me, like I didn't understand politics at all. Maybe I still don't.
Thoughts?
Minor point. Obama lucked into not voting for the war, by not entering the Senate till 2005. So he wasn't burdened with having voted for it, and could act like he wouldn't have. I think he probably would have voted for it if he'd been there