premise: One can persuasively argue that were it not for the distorting effect of 9-11 and the ability of Karl Rove and company to exploit fear, especially among key sub-groups of independents and married and middle and working-class women, <hypo>.
hypothesis: <hypo> should be "the election that Kathryn Harris and the Supreme Court stole from Al Gore would have been reversed in 2004 and George W"