For politics' sake

Artists can't fathom why John Kerry lost | Gene Edward Veith

The prize for the most unintentionally humorous reason given by a liberal for why President Bush defeated John Kerry—in a contest with many entries—has to go to Alan Woods, an Ohio State drama professor quoted in the Chicago Tribune: "We are now reaping, in election results, the consequences of the colossal reductions in art education."

Mr. Woods was trying to figure out why Americans reelected the president even though the nation's artists told them not to.

Bruce Springsteen organized his fellow rock stars into the Vote for Change tour, with John Mellencamp, the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, R.E.M, the Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, and others staging concerts to elect Mr. Kerry. Rapper Eminem put out an anti-Bush video. P. Diddy put out "Vote or Die" T-shirts and got multitudes of rap fans to register to vote, and not for Mr. Bush.