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OHIO: KERRY WON'T ADMIT IT'S OVER [Peter W. Schramm 11/03 02:34 AM]

I am sure you all have been listening to the same TV I have been listening to at the Ashbrook Center with about 100 students and friends. So you know as much as I do. Kerry isn't conceding Ohio because, they claim, there are about 250,000 provisional or absentee ballots that have yet to be counted and — because Kerry is down by circa 125,000 votes, with about 97% of the votes counted — it is still possible that Kerry can carry the state. Not so, in my opinion. And let me point you to a massive fact explained by Ohio's Secretary of State Ken Blackwell: There are somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 provisional or absentee ballots out there. This means that Bush's lead cannot be overcome, unless Kerry weans unnatural and huge majority of those votes. And one more point: Bush's votes have climbed in the last hour or so because most of the large Demo districts (Cuyahoga County, for example) are already in and what is left (circa 3%) will come from predominantly GOP areas. So, Bush has won Ohio, and Kerry will not admit it. In effect, as Brit Hume just implied, if Kerry had the moral integrity of a Richard Nixon, he would concede.

One more quick point on this important election. At the end Bush will won the majority of the national aggregate vote (at the moment at about 51%) and this is important because of 2000. It is a moral victory.

Yes, a moral victory. Kind of like a mandate, except better.