Turning point

[Shira]

It's the gays, stupid.

[Shira]

“I am very worried about this decision.  Kerry might lose the elections”
That was my mother’s response after the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision.
I was far from being enthusiastic about this decision, but I could not imagine that this would have such a disastrous impact on the outcomes.
Unfortunately my mother was right in her pessimistic assessment.
We, Americans are more stupid than I thought

[Shira]

Other:

The day when the Massachusetts judge struck down the gay marriage law. 

Bush's ability to capitalize on that and other moral issues won him the election and a solid majority.

You are absolutely right.
Don't forget, however, that the ignorance played a major role in these elections. Many of these "moral issues" voters sincerely believe that Sadam was the man behind 9/11.
                                                                                         

[Shira]

My write-in choice is "Kerry's insanely bone-headed remark on Iraq at the Grand Canyon".  This happened shortly after the DNC and haunted Kerry's Iraq position from then on. 

I am very sad that I have to agree with this assessment. I don't know who guided Kerry to adopt this position.
Kerry at least should have said what senator Rockefeller of WV said: "I voted for the war. If I knew what I know now, I would have voted against".
Clear and simple.

[Shira]

Personally, I don't think there was ever any turning point, really.  Neither candidate really pulled ahead in any fashion.  If you switched roughly 0.05% of the total votes cast, Kerry would be president now.  To me, a "turning point" would imply that either candidate won by a sizeable margin.

If only 65,000 out of almost 2,800,000 Bush's voters in Ohio had voted the other way, then all the pundits would have come with a completely different interpretations/explanations