Category: Old Dish

Daily Kos is sighing. He hasn’t had any good news in a couple hours. NRO’s Geraghty is calling Florida for Bush:

In Broward, the Bush campaign expected to lose by 250,000 votes, but are down only 174,000 with 84 percent reporting. In Duvall, the Bush campaign expected to win by a 40,000, and they are set to win with a 50,000 vote margin. Bush is ahead of the swing counties, and north of the I-4 corridor, Bush is set to double the vote margin of victory he had in 2000. And the Bush campaign says they will have an absentee vote margin of 150,000. Adding that all together, they estimate a 3 percentage point win.

And I’m watching Jon Stewart. Warning: two glasses of wine down.

Now look at the tradesports tally. Bush is surging.

GODDAMMIT: I just want it to be over. I’m beginning not to care if Ralph Nader wins as long as we don’t have to endure more of this all week long. I guess the exit polls were as out of it as I am slowly getting this evening. Damn. And voting is still taking place in Pennsylvania. Will it ever end?

That’s what the exit polls are saying. Also:

Late-deciding voters broke in Kerry’s favor, and those who decided sometime in the first few weeks of October (think debates) broke strongly in favor of Kerry. Early deciders were split.

Yes, the debates. They were critical.

Theo van Gogh represented freedom of speech. That’s why the Jihadists killed him.

I like their map the best.

In Amsterdam, throngs protest the Islamist murder of a film-maker. The Jihad stops for no one, and no election.

“I was standing in line to vote here in Chicago early this morning. I stood behind a man who, after over an hour of standing in line, was told he had come to the wrong polling place. There was no visible anger or frustration on his part – he just got directions to the right place and left. When it was my turn, I was told by the election officer that my John Kerry pin was the first partisan paraphanalia she’d seen all day. I took it off – proud to just be able to participate in this process, and proud to be surrounded by people who felt the same. People everywhere in this city seem to be in a particularly good mood today; at the end of such a bitter race, it’s beautiful to be part of truly united States.”

From Slate:

In the national exit poll, Kerry leads Bush 51-48. In Wisconsin he’s up by three and in Ohio and Florida he leads by one.

That’s more convincing. Please spare us from endless litigation in Ohio and Florida. Please.

From NRO’s source inside the Bush apparatus:

Catholic vote looks good for the President, particularly in Wisconsin.
Bush is getting 40 percent of the Hispanic vote, compared to 35 percent in 2000.
And no, exit polls don’t include early and absentee voting. Bush leads these nationwide.
There is total confidence that at the end of the night, Bush will win.

Hmmm. Total confidence?

This from Oxblog, and from the great poet, Philip Larkin:

Party Politics

I never remember holding a full drink.
My first look shows the level half-way down.
What next? Ration the rest, and try to think
Of higher things, until mine host comes round?
Some people say, best show an empty glass:
Someone will fill it. Well, I’ve tried that too.
You may get drunk, or dry half-hours may pass.
It seems to turn on where you are. Or who.

As Ohio seems to tighten … Pour yourself another one. I’ll be your designated blogger tonight (with over 200,000 visits already today).