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[Brian Dale]

There's a good piece called The greater victory at Samizdata by Alice Bachini. There's a bunch of other good stuff there, but Ms. Bachini's bit reads, in part,

But more important than all these things {Senate majority, winning the popular vote by 4 million votes, others - Happy Bob} is the great battle against terrorism that has just been resoundingly won. Every Islamist from Arafat to Bin Laden wanted America to reject its president and vote for the relatively antiwar John Kerry. Anti-Americans everywhere were hoping that the U.S. people would either retreat in fear from the Middle East, or pretend that the "nuisance" did not exist. As the anti-Bush candidate, Kerry would have been the anti-American-values president, standing for ambivalence, appeasement and, in the eyes of Islamism, weakness.

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The biggest voter turnout in American history has refused to be cowed by terrorism. And when terrorism fails to terrorise, it has lost.

She gets it.