On Saturday Afternoon, a triumphant red sea of Sox fans streamed down Boylston Street from Fenway Park to the banks of the Charles River to pay tribute to their baseball heroes who overcame historic odds to capture their first World Series title in 86 years. Last night into the wee small hours of this morning, Democrats gathered in Copley Square hoping to land a historic win of their own, one that would pen Senator John Kerry the 44th President of the United States. However as the night went on, as Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crowe and Carole King played on, as another sea of red, Republican red, methodically swept on across the south and the midwest, the Copley Square faithful and the Democratic Party as a whole longed for one more miracle, a patch of blue in Ohio. At press time, it appears that political slice of divine intervention will not come to pass leaving a nation deeply divided, the Democratic Party reeling and moving trucks around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue idle for another four years.
Vice Presidential candidate Senator John Edwards addressed the tired Kerry throng early this morning promising his ticket will not give up on Ohio until every vote, absentee and provisional alike, has been counted. Still, reports out of Ohio seem to indicate that it would take fuzzy math and a multitude of legal challenges for Kerry to defeat President George W. Bush.
Senator Kerry has been silent to this point as Democratic spokespeople concede nothing on his behalf. That said, the mass of supporters in Copley Square, arguably more excited about the Boston Red Sox than their native candidate, has long left carrying with them fresh memories of Sheryl Crow singing how she thinks a change will do you good only to face this morning after with no such change to embrace and pent up fears over the character and spirit of the Democratic Party. In hindsight, it seems strategically hunting in the woods, dropping President Ronald Reagan's name in debates and stump speeches and ending these speeches with 'God Bless America' neither swung votes to Kerry or captivated his party base. Somewhere, Howard Dean is wearing a Red Sox cap, the brim of it concealing his smirk.
