As many as 250k provisionals left, most all could be verified, and if Kerry can get down to only several thousand vote difference a manual recount is automatically triggered in the state.
And the real long shot, Florida, which is around 370,000 votes in favor of Bush still has about a million and a half absentee and provisional ballots to count. Kerry would need to pull well over 50% of them, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. A new President is not installed until late January, I think we can wait until all the votes are counted before we go and declare someone the victor here. Bush wins, sigh, fine. But count all the votes first.
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