And just why was he voted in for a second term?
War fever. Remember that weird osama tape (where he was 50 pound heavier and 6 inches shorter than usual) which came out on Oct 30, 2004... on the eve of the Nov 2, 2004 election? Osama endorsed Kerry.
THen we had the Ohio and Florida election anomalies, where an election e-machine company whose CEO promised to "deliver the Presidency to Bush" in internal memoes, where the machine results contrasted traditionally accurate exit polling data. This means there is mathematically a one in a billion chance that Bush won. Of course, we could recount the paper backups to see if Bush is that lucky, or if Kerry won... but the Republicans sued to have the ballots destroyed. They're still sealed to this day as lawyers fight. Democracy? yeah, right...