Mr. G; If you’re simply talkin about winners & losers, like rootin for your fav team against their arch rivals, than yes, it’s a blessing. But if Kerry was in office the country, indeed the world, would be a different place. In the end you’re correct. The economy would be in the same place and we wouldn’t have the G.W. to kick around for our troubles, so yes, the emotional swing against the Repubs would’ve been nullified.

Of course, the SCOTUS would look a lota different, and so would the spending for the war. But now do we swing so far to the left that the middle loses again?