(10.) The "youth vote" campaigns failed.

(9.) The white evangelical Protestant vote alone gave Bush his victory.

(8.) We have fixed the voting problems of 2000.

(7.) The Republicans won because the country turned significantly more conservative.

(6.) The Republicans won the "get out the vote" ground war because they had more money.

(5.) Moral values trumped the election and show that the country is deeply divided along cultural fault lines.

(4.) The United States is a sea of Republican "red states."

(3.) The 11 state gay marriage bans that passed mean homophobia is on the rise.

(2.) Bush's hard-line Israeli policy caused many Jewish voters to vote Republican.

(1.) The Republicans now have a lock on politics for the next 50 years.