N.O. Pundit

Off With My Pajamas ...

... and to bed.

Some thoughts:

1. Would John Kerry be president had the Guardian not pissed Ohioans off so much with their letter-writing campaign? That one state swings and Kerry (it appears at 12:30am central time) is the electoral college winner, Bush the popular vote winner.

2. If you had betting money and were watching tradesports.com, you coulda made some dough. The total electoral vote betting lines swung upwards of 70% in several hours.

3. The winners are the new media and voters (11/3/2004 and the military!). It was a tough battle (a battle which I thought was not even going to be this close, as I predicted a landslide). Without blogs, Kerry would surely have won. The voters also win for two reasons: one, our turnout is by every read phenomenal; and I believe that the right candidate won.

4. The losers are the mainstream media and the exit pollers (nb: I don't regard the Democrats as losers even though they lost; they fought the battle as they should have, albeit perhaps with some overzealous or possibly illegal tactics). The shilling for Kerry was deafening. Well, the voters and America win, and it wasn't easy.

5. If you think 2004 was a hard battle, you ain't seen nothing yet. 2008 will make 2004 look like a playground argument. We better get ready.

God bless America.

Posted by nopundit at November 3, 2004 01:07 AM