John Kerry won the election the same way Bush had won it 4 years earlier. He had campaigned in Ohio heavily in the final weeks before the election, and won without the popular vote. He was an unpopular President and the Dems did poorly in 2006 and 2008 due to the Financial Market Collapse. Although he partially withdrew from Iraq, he did little else on foreign policy. The one good thing he did for the Dems appointed a more progressive court in his four years. He lost badly in 2008 to Romney partially due to fallout from the Edwards scandal. What if Bush had won instead???