November 3, 2004

No contest

By Thomas Lifson
President Bush has won a convincing re—election in terms of the popular vote. His margin is in the millions, and he has won an absolute majority, something Bill Clinton never did. The Electoral College total, absent provisional ballots, also appears to have given him a win. Those Democrats who piously declared in 2000 that 'Gore won' because of his narrow popular vote plurality are finding that their shoes don't fit very well when put on the other foot. Even if the votes of 'Mary Poppins' and other crack—fueled suspicious registrants in Ohio are counted, it would take a huge Kerry margin, on the order of 9 to 1, to swing Ohio's 20 electors. Does anyone think such a margin is legitimately possible? The right thing to do, obviously, would be for John F. Kerry to take Andrew Card's words to heart, and 'reflect' before sending in the lawyers to contest Ohio's six—digit verdict against him, or any other state totals. Let us hope that he is listening to...(Read Full Article)