The manufactured divide: rhetoric aside, little of substance separated George W. Bush from John Kerry--and a second Bush term will do nothing to reduce the size, expense, and power of government.(Elections)

The narrowness of President Bush's margin of re-election victory over John Kerry vividly illustrates that little of substance separated the candidates from each other. This is further demonstrated by the fact that many voters in key states, such as Ohio, remained undecided literally up to the moment they cast their votes. It's difficult to believe that so many voters would have suffered such paralyzing indecision had Bush and Kerry presented starkly defined alternatives.

The Economist of Great Britain tidily summarized the election as a contest between "incompetence" and "incoherence." The noteworthy differences between the major candidates could be reduced to ...