Results! Election night'04 ... your armchair expert analysis

obill what are we coming together for???48% still think this is not the right man for the job!!! and eh brown i applaud you for continuing to express your disent....

I have no desire to "come together". I will respect the right of the American people to make this decision, but I plan to spend the next four years opposing this idiocy in any ethical way I can.

This is simply a disaster. My only hope is that these four years will wake Americans up.

But "coming together"? No!

Iowa: 94% reporting. Bush ahead 10,000.

It's looking good.

Candidate Popular vote % of votes Electoral votes
George W. Bush (REP)* 50,452,504 51% 269
John F. Kerry (DEM) 47,015,470 48% 207
Ralph Nader (IND) 347,622 0% 0

81% of precincts reporting

Why won't they call NM already??????????

<Don't they know I need to go to bed???>

LOL.

You have a funny way of showing respect.

CNN is now saying Ohio is "too close to call."

Bush has 104,000 more votes than Kerry. 93% reporting.

Are they on crack?

A bunch of provisional ballots still to be counted, I think, Tico.

Liberals just can't stand to lose.

They will be claiming that some were disenfranchised, votes weren't counted or that the balot was misleading.

Remember the Democratic Code...

When you win, crow about it and claim that it is the 'Will of the People'

When you lose, hold your breath, stamp your feet and yell 'NO NO NO' just like any 5 year old who doesn't want to lose.

What do you want? I accept that Bush will be the president for the next four years because of the votes of 51% of Americans.

I plan to excercise my right for dissent in the hope that maybe we can still affect change in our country. I would hope that you would do the same.

Fedral - they're devastated and taking it hard.....as would we if the tables were turned.

I don't think you have to explaing anything ebrown...

Kerry's back in the lead in Nevada.


Only by 300 votes.



Only 54% reporting there. It's still a toss-up there, but it voted Bush last go-round.

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In Ohio, with 95% reporting:

Bush 2,648,463 51%
Kerry 2,546,176 49%

How is that "too close to call"?

ABC news is saying that they are not calling Ohio for Bush because there is a county with significant Kerry support that had problems and is counting by hand. They won't call it until that county comes in.

I still don't feel good about that, but there is a tiny bit of hope.

Doesn't matter. There are still around 600,000 votes in Ohio that haven't been counted yet. Aren't you watching?

<sighs>

No, I hadnt gone to bed yet ... just texting A., telling her that her elections didnt look too hot ... but that it all still depended on ohio - then, a few minutes later, that ohio had gone too.

She responded: "i dont want to know"

Then I saved some text and closed my windows one by one and here we are.

Those Senate results really get to me. I mean, at least the presidential race was close. Well, kinda. But the senate - all those contested seats - you won em almost all. Except for Salazar. ND and Alaska look bad too. To see people like Coburn and DeMint get in, and with such margins (Coburn got a 12% lead!) - I mean, I'm sorry, the neocons are one thing with their messianistic interventionism, but at least they're driven by their own modern brand of idealism. These people are the <tries to find a nice word for pigs' arse, fails> of your party, and they swept in.

Meanwhile, Yahoo is still stubbornly refusing to call Ohio for Bush, though they called NH and MN for Kerry by now ... but everyone else did, it seems, so <shrugs>. Done.

Well, lemme go post some haikus on that other thread that i wrote yesterday but didnt want to post in order not to spoil our chances ... and call it a day, then. Because it is, by now (day, I mean).

Not a compliment for Bush: one barrel WTI oil sort rises to 50,35 Dollar

True, but at least the President's victory has saved me a LOT of labor.

Now I don't have to break out the environmentally sealed gun cases and bury them in the yard to keep them out of the hands of the Liberals.

Looks like it's over. Congratulations repubs, your man has won again.

The positives for me:

1. Bush will most likely have a much tougher time starting unnecessary wars, thanks to the debacle in Iraq...hopefully.

2. Four more years for the press to expose him as the fraud that he is.

It ain't much, but I can dream, can't I?