"Our long national nightmare is over!"

French commander surrenders.

(Wait, that's not news!)

We really should take the time to appreciate what just happened. Kerry has conceded rather than drag this out, and by doing so, has reaffirmed the validity of the system, and has helped put to rest some of the 2000 rancor.

I for one will be hoisting a drink to Kerry tonight.

Thank you, Senator.

If true, methinks Kerry does this as a gentlemanly gesture (which is it) and thereby get a lot of goodwill. He stays in the Senate and tries again in 2008. Perrhaps he even throws in his hat to be the next senate minority leader?

For all of his faults, if indeed Kerry has conceded, my respect for him has just went up considerably.

Ditto MB.

I agree that it was a gracious move by Kerry. But it really wasn't that hard to see the writing on the wall. CNN kept refusing to call this election long after the outcome was clear. When all the counting is done Bush is going to have one heck of a mandate. I think I'd better rush to the airport, to say goodbye to all the people who promised they'd leave America if Bush won!

A commendable gesture from Kerry, and one which will probably save him his Senate seat.

I'm assuming the Kerry operatives who are not out in Michael Moore-land ran the numbers and saw the results were going to be impossible to reverse, and the senator agreed that no effort even with the help of the media was going to flip Ohio.

Kerry's concession almost made me tune into Air America when I was listening to XM in my car a little while ago, but I decided not to take pleasure from others' anger and/or suffering -- unless some ad hoc Soros 527 goes off on their own and files suit to change the outcome in the next few hours. Then I'll be in full gloat mode.

It was over by midnight. He should have addressed his own supporters not sent out Edwards.

Kerry could read the writing on the wall: the 250K provisional votes his campaign claimes was more like 150K, making it a million to one shot. I agree, unlike Al Gore, he quit as soon as he realized it was over, but it wasn't exactly self-immolation.

I'd like to take a moment to recognize the contributions of Mr. Soros and his cohorts for contributing millions to our economy which should help to bring the economy into full swing now that the sun has come out from behind the clouds.

My elation is somewhat dampened as I've come to realize the extent to which the migration from the states immediately to our South has altered the political demographics of NH ... now a blue state ... oh the shame.

Gore would have been a fool to concede too early.

I certainly hope that if the shoe is on the other foot, Republicans would react similiarly to Gore.
The real problem came about with the partisan Florida Supreme Court.

The numbers are just not there for Kerry, so I see no reason to applaud or criticize his behavior.

Thank God for:

Australia Tony Blair John Howard the people of Afghanistan 130,000 voters in Ohio Florida Ohio the U.S. Military the 57 million American voters the people of Iraq Dick Cheney

a sea of red states in the South

Texas

the GOP GOTV

and George W. Bush

Oh, I forgot, thank God for:

The Swift Boat Vets

NH isn't all that blue; neither is PA or WI. There's a reasonable chance of redness in all these places in the next go-round.

I would say residual anti-Southern hatred is
one reason that keeps some of the Northern tier
states from going solidly red.

That is one of the quirks of the realigned
electorate. The North-South divide can often
overwhelm other considerations.

I would say however, if the republicans should adopt a more anti-immigration stance then they will be hitting 40+ territory.

genecis:
I live in Vermont, so I feel your pain. Just keep fighting the good fight, and someday you'll have a Republican governor too!

"I would say however, if the republicans should adopt a more anti-immigration stance then they will be hitting 40+ territory."

There's more Hispanics than there are anti-immigrationists.