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November 03, 2004
It ain't over 'til. . . .
Roger L. Simon was blogging away until the wee hours on the Left Coast.
If the Democrats Protest Ohio...
...the Republican should protest Pennsylvania where the race was closer!
Pennsylvania:
Bush 2,738,850 48.59
Kerry 2,864,124 50.81Ohio:
Bush 2,777,645 - 51 percent
Kerry 2,632,547 - 48 percentPathetic, huh? Time for the Democratic Party to grow up or implode.
The Volokh Conspiracy, the website of UCLA Constitutional Law Prof. Eugene Volokh, points out that the vote isn't really close.
Assuming that there is no way to manufacture new provisional ballots in the next few hours, it appears that Americans were lucky this time that the results in Florida and Ohio were not close. At 4am Wednesday, with 100% of the Ohio precincts reporting, Bush leads Ohio by 145,000 votes (51.1% to 48.4%)--very different from the effective tie in Florida in 2000 (just a few hundred votes difference then). People were so strongly expecting a razor thin result in Ohio that they haven't yet fully adjusted to the fact that it wasn't too close. Wins by more than 2% are completely ordinary and--absent special evidence that I am not privy to--not the sort of situation that should merit special scrutiny.
Hugh Hewitt commented on a candidate who chose to concede early:
Pete Coors is a gentleman. Trailing by less than 50,000 votes out of nearly 1.8 million and with 12% of Colorado's precincts yet to be tallied, Pete nevertheless took a calm look at the numbers and called Ken Salazar to concede. Classy.
Contrast that with Tom Daschle, Tony Knowles and Betty Castor, and of course John Kerry. No reasonable interpretation of the data in any of these races can give any of these candidates a win, but they are hanging on.
This is not the conduct of a great party, but it is also not surprising for the party of Michael Moore. What an example for the new democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Perhaps sleep will bring wisdom to this group. Sleep, and a good hard look at what Al Gore has become.
With the pick up of a net four seats in the United States Senate, the GOP is in a position to force votes on the president's judicial nominees. That is the major story for next week, after a concession is wrong from Kerry.
Congratulations President Bush, the first president since his father to carry a pure majority of the popular vote.
Meanwhile the Media lackeys of the Democratic Party are already beginning to lay the blame for this loss where it belongs: on the idiotic electorate. That's right, folks, we're too stooopid to vote for the better candidate. Check out Will Saletan's piece over on Slate:
Simple but Effective: Why you keep losing to this idiot.
In Saletan's defense, the body of the article isn't as ridiculous as the headline, but his mantra of Bush's "simplicity" carries with it the unavoidable subtext that those voters who like said simplicity are too . . . dumb to appreciate the glorious nuance of the horse-faced maroon from Massachusetts.
Memo to Bush haters: He won more than 3.5 million votes more than your guy. You folks have been spewing hateful invective for the last four years about "Selected, not elected," and "Gore won the popular vote."
Gore had a margin of 500,000.
Give it up, will ya?
Ain't democracy grand?
Posted by Mike Lief at November 3, 2004 06:53 AM