OK, it’s 9:25 here, and there’s essentially no news, and there won’t be any news for hours. News about the election, that is.
OK, that’s not technically true. We’ve had some bad news about the Senate and the House, and we’ve pretty much eliminated the landslide possibilities. All of the toss-up states are still toss-ups. I believe that so far no state has switched columns from 2000; the states that were possibles that have been called so far have been called the probable way.
So, we wait.
My hope, of course, is that Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida have substantial pluralities (even majorities) for Senator Kerry, sufficient to force Our Only President to concede before dawn. I’d give that about a thirty-percent chance. I’d still give a maybe twenty-percent chance that it’s the Senator who concedes before dawn after Ohio and Florida go red. Fifty percent chance nobody concedes in the next eight hours.
Then, who knows. It could just be a few days of ballot counting, provisional, absentee, overseas, military, etc. As much as I’d like this to be over tonight, I couldn’t really complain if it’s just a matter of it being so close nobody gets eliminated until the last ballot is counted. It’s if they finish counting and still don’t have a concession that I start weeping. Not yet. Now, we wait.
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-Vardibidian.