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Or—just read the entire text of the ABC “News” release here [heh]:

Kerry Concedes Election
Kerry to Make Concession Speech in Boston, Bush Set for Re-election Victory

Sen. John Kerry conceded defeat to President Bush in a phone call this morning. (Reuters)

Nov. 3, 2004 — Sen. John Kerry will publicly concede the presidential election this afternoon after a victory in the battleground state of Ohio appeared hopelessly out of reach.

“Appeared”?

Walking down the center stripe. “What’s that comin’ over the hill, yonder, Ma?” “Cain’t tell from here, Pa. Looks like a semi, but let’s wait til it runs over us to say for sure.”

Dems Too Tone-Deaf to Hear Her Sing 

Thanksgiving will be celebrated early here, this year. A clear majority in both the ECV and the popular vote for President Bush will make it difficult for sKerry and his ilk to pull an Algore. Aside from a disappointing loss by Pete Coors in Colorado, substantial gains in both the House and Senate for the President’s party will mean an opportunity to be a uniter… from a position of strength (wanna throw some tantrums? Go sit in the corner for a time out… 🙂

So, here’s my signoff for this long election night:

Now thank we all our God,
with heart and hands and voices,
who wondrous things hath done,
in whom his world rejoices;
who from our mother’s arms
hath blessed us on our way
with countless gifts of love,
and still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God
through all our life be near us,
with ever-joyful hearts
and blessèd peace to cheer us;
and keep us in his grace,
and guide us when perplexed,
and free us from all ills
in this world and the next.

All praise and thanks to God
the Father now be given,
the Son, and Holy Ghost,
supreme in highest heaven,
the one eternal God,
whom earth and heaven adore;
for thus it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.

Words: Martin Rinkart (1586-1649), 1636
trans. Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878), 1858

It’s 3:17 a.m., 11-03-04. This just in from Realclearpolitics.com:

Presidential Race – State by State Results

(With apologies to RealClearPolitics for adding the essential “s” to sKerry’s name)

This may change… for the better, as New Mexico might well drop into Bush’s column, and Iowa is looking better and better. Bush already leads in Iowa and is still gaining in the count there by close to 20,000 votes, with 2063 of 2079 Precincts Reporting.

I think I’ll sleep for a coupla hours, now.

Looks like a solid majority in the popular vote, so far, for President Bush. Solid gains in the House and Senate. Possibly as many as 320 ECV. Enough to compel a concession from Jean Fraud sKerry? Probably… not. Or at least not one he won’t (or can’t) flip-flop on…

We’ll see, won’t we? If the Mass Media Podpeople had shut up about their stupid (and almost invariably wrong—or at least misleading) exit polls, the gap would likely be larger. Maybe even large enough to have depressed the Left Coast Dems a little. Payback from the real world for the Florida panhandle depressed vote of 2000.

Oh. Well. Take what comes, come what may.

Anyone checking here: check

http://www.worldmag.com/ and

http://news.yahoo.com/electionresults

For regularly updated maps showing ECV and breakdowns of the vote state-by-state.

Update: OK, the 320 may be over the top optimistic, but over 300 isn’t unrealistic, at this stage. 🙂

While Bush is racking up the ECV and leading or doing well in all the states he must (and some of the “bonus” states, as well), Senate races are also going well.

And on the voter intimidation front, Lori Byrd at Polipundit notes a report that

” …the GOP has a list of documented Democratic voter intimidation cases longer than your arm. Or, longer than a John Kerry speech. Or, longer than John Edwards spends fussing with his hair. You get the idea.”

Add that to the Daschle embarrassment for the Dems in SD (no matter how the race turns out), and “litigating the race” (and doing so via the Mass Media Podpeople) becomes problematic for the Dems.

As many have noted: if the polls are still open, call Uncle Zed and Aunt Polly and get them, their kids and their dogs down to vote.

And pray.

Maybe pray first. And keep on.

🙂

Charles Green over at Little Green Footballs has a few pointed words:

Do you want to see John Kerry going hat in hand to the United Nations and posing for photo ops with Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac? Do you want to see the Arab world partying like it’s 9/11?

Do you want to see a new video from Osama bin Laden congratulating president-elect Kerry, directed by Michael Moore?

Go vote now! Go!

Go.

Thx to Carol Liebau for referring to the California Republic blog Some good stuff there, including “Top ten reasons I’m voting for Bush today” by Steven Zak. Here’s a part of his list. Read the rest at the link.

10: Michael Moore, who cheers for terrorists — I mean, “Minutemen” — in Iraq, and who dedicated a book to terror enabler Rachel Corrie. Among his disciples, who reveal themselves by adopting his talking points, are John Kerry and Osama bin Laden.

9: George Soros, the billionaire financier of far-left organizations like Moveon.org, so bent on single-handedly ending the Bush presidency that he has donated over $15 million toward that end. Soros fails to understand — or doesn’t care — that democracy means everyone’s voice counts, not that the will of others can be nullified with sufficient cash.

8: Soros wannabe, B-list actor Matt Damon, who recently confessed to his own fantasy of eliminating the voting input of other Americans by buying the election. “I would pay $1 million to have Kerry in the White House,” he told a crowd in Germany. (My own fantasy: I pay a million to have Damon permanently disappear from every movie screen and video store in America.)

7: Dan Rather and CBS, who made their own effort to hijack the election using fabricated documents to denigrate President Bush — an appalling attempt at anti-democracy by trickery. As if all is nonetheless right with the world, Rather will be there, reporting away, on November 2.

It’s a “top ten countdown” so go read the rest, and stick around for others’ commentary there, as well.

It’s been a few years since I had to stand in any kind of line to vote (well, since we moved here, I guess). Didn’t today, either. Folks were marking their ballots and moving right along this morning at 6:30 (yeh, we got a late start :-). It was nice, though, to be “carded” here in our lil under 2,000 pop town at a polling place where darned near everyone knew who folks were.

Voting is serious business. Producing valid ID and proving you have the right to vote is a good thing. Of course, moving from punch card ballots to marking in lil circles with a “special” pen was difficult for me, since I’ve never been good at “coloring between the lines” [heh].

Oh, and I did vote for one Democrat. One of the finest men in the county, up for commissioner in our district. Was an easy choice. And I do enjoy those positions where the only vote is “should so-and-so retain their position” cos the answer is always “No” to that question. Of course, most of those positions are for lifers… something we ought not have anywhere (how about a Constitutional Amendment requiring federal judges/justices to retire? Yeh. A Good Thing, IMO)

Well, back to letting Fox election commentary play in the background while I get “real meaningful stuff” done…

“Blackfive” reports being turned away from the polls in Chicago:

I was not in the [voter registration] books. I’ve voted in every election in my district since moving there in 2000…

…I have two forms of ID – a driver’s license and a Firearm Owner ID. I also have a faculty ID for the UofC and a corporate ID from where I work. I had my Voter Registration Card. I also had a paycheck with my address on it…

…As I left on my way to the County Election Commission to file a complaint, I asked ten different people who were also denied a vote because they weren’t in the book, “Are you Republicans?”

All ten replied, “Yes.”

“Did you vote in the primary?”

Nine, “Yes.”

Who’s “suppressing the vote” here, I wonder. Oh. Yes. It’s Chicago. ‘Nuff said?