Why did Bush win?

This article in the Daily Telegraph gives the best analysis of the differences between European and American majorities. Here's a taste.

When one examines Brian Reade's anatomy of redneck disfigurements -"gun-totin',military-lovin', abortion-hatin' " - most of them are about the will to survive,as individuals and as a society. Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible about Europeans preening and posing as a great power when they can't even stop some nickel'n'dime Balkan genital-severers piling up hundreds of thousands of corpses on their borders.

Thanks to Volokh.