REFLECTIONS ON THE NEWS SO FAR II

The networks are being extremely cautious about calling certain states...Bush states. Is this because they have numbers that show Kerry doing much better than anyone thought? Possibly. But I would be shocked if Bush didn't win South Carolina by a very large margin, and North Carolina and Virginia by a comfortable margin.

The news continues to move toward a repeat of the deadlock of 2000, which is the worst possible outcome for the country. I hope we begin to see numbers breaking one way or the other within the next few hours. Otherwise, we will be faced with situations like the absentee ballots on hold in Pennsylvania. Those ballots won't be counted until a judge rules on them tomorrow morning. The Bush v. Gore precedent looks worse all the time. Personally, I wish the court had called the vote in Florida a tie and thrown the election, constitutionally, into the House. Bush would have won, it would have been seen as political, but it would have kept the lawyers and the judges out of it.