As red-state America was supposedly pining for traditional values, the breakout hit on TV was a campy nighttime soap that showcased a quintet of sex-crazed women (from left: Nicollette Sheridan, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, and Teri Hatcher). Pill popping, adultery, drunken driving, suicide anything goes on manicured Wisteria Lane. Suburban dysfunction has rarely been this much fun or popular
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year