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November 2004Four More Years for Pro-Life President George W. Bush
WE DID IT! FOUR MORE YEARS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH By Carol Tobias
Pro-lifers were ecstatic with the re-election of George W. Bush as President of the United States. After a long, tough battle, we could breathe a sigh of relief, knowing a pro-life leader was in the White House for another four years. President Bush received 51% of the vote to 48% for John Kerry. He won 286 electoral votes compared to 252 for Kerry. The almost 60 million votes cast for President Bush is more than any other presidential candidate in history. Along with winning the White House, pro-lifers helped to elect seven new pro-life senators and 20 new pro-life members of the U.S. House. Many hostile commentators attempted to diminish the magnitude of the President's triumph. But "Bush increased his percentage of the vote in 45 states, and his gains were particularly impressive in many of the states that he lost," wrote James W. Ceaser and Dnial DiSalvo in the Weekly Standard. "Blue America in 2004 is of a decidedly lighter hue than it was in 2000." (See President's column on page 3, and the editorial on page 2 for more details.) PAGE 1 New Pro-Lifers Added to United States House and Senate By Carol Tobias
Pro-lifers cheered the re-election of pro-life President George W. Bush, but also had another reason to rejoice election night: the victories of pro-life candidates running for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. These gains will strengthen the President's hand in dealing with the leadership of the Democratic Party, which is dominated by strong pro-abortion advocates. U.S. SENATE Of the nine new members of the Senate, seven are pro-life. The new pro-life senators are Mel Martinez of Florida, Johnny Isakson of Georgia, David Vitter of Louisiana, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, and John Thune of South Dakota. All seven are Republican. Overall, pro-lifers made a net gain of three votes in the Senate. The closest election in the Senate won by a pro-lifer was a real nail-biter. Mel Martinez defeated pro-abortion Betty Castor (D) in Florida, receiving 49% to Castor's 48%. Out of 7,410,852 votes cast, Martinez won by only 83,582. PAGE 1 NEW
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From the President
HARD WORK AND COURAGE PAID OFF The expectations had gone so out of control that, on Tuesday afternoon, we reporters
[in Boston] had already moved on to the second-, third-, and fourth-day stories.
The exit polls seemed to show such a clear sweep of the battleground states for John Kerry
that the news of his victory already seemed stale. Yep, it's true. We were already
speculating about the dynamics of Kerry's reelection campaign. A newspaper reporter at a
major daily polished an article about George W. Bush's concession speech. ---"Night Falls," Ryan Lizza, in New Republic Online, 11/04/2004 I grew up in Missouri and most of my family voted for Bush, so I am going to be the
one to say it: The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate
and exploit ignorance in the citizenry. ---novelist Jane Smiley, on the web journal slate.msn.com, 11/04/2004 By Wednesday morning, the country had chosen Bush over Anybody But Bush by a margin of 3.5 million votes. ---Ellen Goodman, progressive Boston Globe columnist, 11/04/2004 Bush was reelected because he told Americans in the clearest possible language who he is and what he stands for. Just enough of them liked what they heard. Kerry left voters, including many people who voted for him, scratching their heads. ---Eileen McNamara, progressive Boston Globe columnist, 11/07/2004 PAGE 3 Complete NRL News Complete NRL News 2001 Subject Index Complete NRL News 2000 Subject Index Complete NRL News 1999 Subject Index Complete NRL News 1998 Subject Index NRL News Archive19971998JANUARY 1998 1999JANUARY 22, 1999 2000January 2000 2001January 2001February 2001 March 2001 April 2001 May 2001 June 2001 July 2001 August 2001 September 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2001 2002January 2002February 2002 March 2002 April 2002 May 2002 June 2002 July 2002 August 2002 September 2002 October 2002 November 2002 December 2002 2003January 2003February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 2004January
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