What if Kerry had said, "I hereby promise America that during my first-term in office, Osama Bin Laden will be captured or killed. If I fail to accomplish this, as George Bush has failed, I will not seek a second term."
The question is now moot, of course. Yet it is ideas like this that still haunt me.
It may well be Monday-morning quarterbacking, but it could be useful to hear similar ideas from others that they feel could have made a distinct electoral difference.