Once Again, the media sucks

I was watching Dayside because my friend told me to watch it. This vapid lady was talking to people about how the Democrats need to re-invent their party because they have lost touch with the American people. What is she thinking? 48% of voters voted for Senator Kerry. That's almost half. So apparently the Republicans are in touch with 3% more of America than Democrats are. Basically, this election is a result of good campaigning by the Republicans. We aren't talking about landslide victories here. We're talking about a 3% difference. And yet it's somehow a crisis. They don't need to re-invent themselves- they just need to learn how to campaign.
This goes to the root of the problem with American politics. There is no focus on real issues. The campaign propaganda instead sought to portray each candidate's opponent as something that they weren't. There was a concerted effort by both sides to take credit for everything good in this world and blame their opponent for everything bad. I couldn't watch the news for more than five minutes without recognizing false arguments and logical fallacies from both sides. And yet they go unchallenged. There is no quest for truth. We managed to elect a man who was an alcoholic until his fortieth birthday, whose brother got divorced partly because of infidelity, and whose daughters have both been charged because they were using alcohol as minors. I could understand and I would be willing to ignore those facts if we had done this because of his superior policies and whatever else. Yet we elected him because he supposedly stands for moral values. I don't understand.