He Coulda Been A Contenda
Here's an amusing review of the documentary of the Kerry campaign,
Inside The Bubble. It's amusing because it's
obviously written by a Kerry supporter. Who else would write this:
And while The War Room ends with tears of victory, Mr. Kerry lost, despite those deceptive early exit polls, which produced the film’s most painful line, as a Kerry supporter passes on the good news on Election Day: “I hear they’re crying in the White House.”:) Although those early exit polls caused me
some heartburn on election day (as well as roiling the markets over at TradeSports and the IEM), one of the recompenses for that dark-appearing afternoon to me is the fact that the Democrats had to go from the thrill of victory to the agony of defeat. It doesn't matter who's winning late in the game, it matters who's winning when the clock reads 0:00.
More
schadenfraude here:
Inside the Bubble itself opens with a painful Election Day scene: Outside Boston’s Faneuil Hall, [Kerry Advance Man] Mr. Loftus and another man embrace and Mr. Loftus passes on the early numbers: “They have a word for that and they usually write it in big black print on the front of newspapers and they call it a f*cking landslide.”Heh. This is the part that always amused me about the Kerry campaign swallowing those numbers. One reporter mentioned getting an email saying that Kerry was up 17 in New Hampshire. But you had to know that was not a possible result, nor was a landslide for Kerry. In the end Kerry did take New Hamster (anybody remember the old hamster that Kerry rescued?), but by 1.4 percentage points.
I'll see if I can find a theatre showing
Inside the Bubble and let you know whether it's worth seeing. I've
seen the trailer and it has some amusing bits, and one jump up and cheer moment when somebody mentions the Swiftees and says something like "The problem was that what the Swift Boat Vets said was largely true."
