Fox News called Ohio for Bush at least 30 minutes before everyone else. Their current headline is “Bush One Electoral Vote From Victory”. CNN’s headline is “Eyes on Ohio”. It looks like MSNBC has now called Ohio for Bush as well. The word on the Democrat sites is that the huge 18-24 voter turnout that was expected, which one would expect to break for Kerry, just isn’t there. Josh Marshall is reporting all kinds of rumored Republican lawyer shenanigans in Ohio, but I guess it isn’t going to matter.
Things are going to look a whole lot worse in the morning. I guess I’d better get out my wallet. I’m really depressed. I didn’t pay nearly as much attention in 2000. When Bush was elected, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and hoped that all of that talk about being a uniter was true. Well, he proved that he wasn’t worthy of my generosity over the last four years. Now that I know with complete certainty what I’m getting, I have to say that I’m very pessimistic about the future for me, my family and the country. Bush is most likely going to appoint several Supreme Court justices over the next four years. The deficit will saddle us and our kids for years to come and there’s not going to be any Social Security waiting for me when I attempt to retire. This is not a good night and it’s not going to get better anytime soon. There’s no way to sugar coat it. We’re all fucked.
EDIT: Perhaps I’m being a little too fatalistic a little too early. I just watched an interview between Wolf Blitzer and Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s Secretary of State. Ohio seems to have their shit together a little better than Florida. There are still all of the Ohio provisional ballots which won’t be counted for up to 11 days from now. The margin in Ohio is still pretty damn small, roughly 100,000 votes. I can’t believe Fox is pulling the same shit this time as 2000. The race is too close to call and they called it over an hour ago before anyone else in favor of Bush. Unfuckingbelievable. On the other hand, why should I be surprised at all?
Good night, Gracie.
EDIT 2: I posted a comment this morning on Russ Beattie’s blog which follows up on some of my rant last night. The 18-24 vote comment needs clarification. The percentage didn’t increase, but the total number did. It just didn’t counteract the opposing increased turnout. I also left a comment on Prentiss’s blog. (There must be an easier way to do this. Trackback perhaps? Too bad it’s not implemented in this CMS.)