Can you imagine if Bin Laden had been killed prior to the 04 election and the Democrats tried to attack Bush for calling it an accomplishment and campaigning on it? Kerry would have been deported. This is a very bad move for the GOP strategically.
Pretty much. The propaganda in the 2004 election was that 10 out of 10 terrorists vote Democrat. Of course the propaganda was completely backwards. Bin Laden wanted to kill Obama but Obama got him first.
If Bush had killed Bin Laden, and Kerry had criticized him for it, I'm not sure we'd have a Democratic party in this country any more. Kerry might have lost DC after that.