Go to bed for four hours and this is what happens: Ohio is still standing - the new Florida, as Ohioblog had anticipated. With a 140,000-vote lead, President Bush appears to have won but with some 200,000 provisional ballots remaining to counted was unwilling to say he had won. Sen. John Kerry has refused to concede, and until Ohio is officially decided, the president has only 254 of the 270 electoral
votes he needs. This is the morning after, and the president, with more votes than any president, is, according to his staff, considering this a mandate. But then, he considered a 500,000-vote loss in 2000 to be a mandate. posted by Ohioblog: A Swing State Journal at 6:20 AM
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