Election: Devastating.
Election Day and the results brought in during Election Night were devastating. Bush wins the popular vote by 3.6 million, exit polls say "moral values" played a big role, Republicans gain several additional seats in Senate and House (with incoming freshmen Republicans even more right-wing than their predecessors) and the ballot initiatives forbidding gay marriage passed in all 11 states that they came up in.
The official poll results for Ohio show (since 3 AM and not changing significantly into midday) that Kerry is down by about 140,000 votes. Despite the potential of massive voter intimidation in Ohio and Florida by Republican "poll-watchers," no complaints of irregularity are made by any of the major watchdog groups on Election Night or this morning, and so the poll numbers seem legit. And then, perhaps based on the calculation that even counting all the absentee and provisional ballots wouldn't grant him the sufficient margin necessary, Kerry makes a swift concession to Bush by 11 AM (public speech at 2 PM).
These are the facts. The previous and subsequent Election-related responses are tied into these crucial, devastating facts.
The official poll results for Ohio show (since 3 AM and not changing significantly into midday) that Kerry is down by about 140,000 votes. Despite the potential of massive voter intimidation in Ohio and Florida by Republican "poll-watchers," no complaints of irregularity are made by any of the major watchdog groups on Election Night or this morning, and so the poll numbers seem legit. And then, perhaps based on the calculation that even counting all the absentee and provisional ballots wouldn't grant him the sufficient margin necessary, Kerry makes a swift concession to Bush by 11 AM (public speech at 2 PM).
These are the facts. The previous and subsequent Election-related responses are tied into these crucial, devastating facts.
posted by The Neologistocrat at 2:35 PM
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