Want to know why the Democrats lost the election? Two words: Bob Shrum. What a recent New York Times article on Kerry campaign strategy doesn’t tell you is that Shrum was driving the entire Kerry campaign — and he drove it straight off a cliff!

The fundamentalism of the majority of the American electorate is no argument for dispensing with the core moral values of our democratic system. In fact, it’s a recipe for dismantling it. Homegrown fundamentalists, who believe against all evidence that God created the world in seven days, evolution is a liberal plot, and homosexuals (other than Mary Cheney) are evil, sound astonishingly like the enemies America is now fighting.

It was the ‘Yalla’ vote. It was the hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters. It was the millions of newly registered voters.

Analyzing exit polling data from the National Elections Pool, I’ve decided to tell ordinary citizens what mainstream media anchors and executives at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and the Associated Press already know — but won’t share with you.