yeah im actually surprised no network called it last night.
i was watching cnn and larry king kept saying things like "what are we waiting for now?" and "looks like he won and we can go home, right?" this was before any station called ohio, but it seemed pretty obvious that bush had won it.
i was watching ohio and i think kerry briefly dipped just below the 100,000 vote margin when about 93% was in, but bush extended his lead afterwards.
i don't think it was even worth prolonging thus far. the uncounted votes are not going to help kerry enough anyway. if it was a matter of a few hundred (or even thousand) votes, i can see the point in waiting. the states will indeed finish counting their votes, but i don't think bush is wrong to declare victory given what we know now.
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