{"id":192,"date":"2004-11-03T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/03\/we-waited-4-years-for-this-victory-we-can-wait-one-more-night\/"},"modified":"2004-11-03T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T07:28:02","slug":"we-waited-4-years-for-this-victory-we-can-wait-one-more-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/we-waited-4-years-for-this-victory-we-can-wait-one-more-night\/","title":{"rendered":"“We waited 4 years for this victory – we can wait one more night”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thus spake John Edwards, not one minute ago.<\/p>\n

Jesus… It hangs in the balance… Not a nice way to wake up of a morning.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico and New Hampshire are still to be called – 78 electoral college votes between them (assuming my maths is right at this God-forsaken hour), and Bush is currently ahead by just 38.<\/p>\n

Bush is on 249
\nKerry is on 211<\/p>\n

Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota and New Hampshire should break for Kerry. This would leave him with 249 electoral college votes.<\/p>\n

Nevada will go to Bush, leaving him with 254.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin (10 votes), Ohio (20 votes) and New Mexico (5 votes) I haven’t got a clue about.<\/p>\n

Either way, it seems that Bush may well have won the popular vote this time around. Even if Kerry does hang on – as he should – hoping these final states all swing his way, he could face the same accusations of not being duly elected as Bush has for the last four years. A certain divine justice, perhaps, but why couldn’t Florida have gone Kerry’s way?<\/p>\n

In other news, the Republicans look to be gaining control of both the House and the Senate – if Kerry gets it, he’ll not be able to pass any legislation; if Bush holds on to his lead, look out for “The Patriot Act II: This Time We Get Nasty On Yo’ Ass”… Not to mention a conservative Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Any rays of hope?<\/p>\n

Well, the future first black President<\/a> – Barak Obama – has been elected to the Senate in Ilinois.<\/p>\n

Edit<\/b>: Who am I kidding? Bush is ahead in Ohio. He’ll get it. The final tally will be something like Bush 274-289, Kerry 249-264.<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: For those wondering why Steve’s post (below this) and mine have different tallies, he’s been going with The New York Times<\/a>, I’ve been going with CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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