Election Jitters
As I write, things look favourable for Bush, but we’re not out of the woods yet. A Kerry victory would be disastrous for this nation and would doom our efforts to defeat radical Islamism, and yet some 36 million voters (at the current count) support his agenda. The states still up for grabs (as well as the current counts) by the C-SPAN reckoning are: Washington (50-49 Bush); Oregon (43-57 Kerry); Nevada (48-51 Kerry); Colorado (52-47 Bush); New Mexico (51-48 Bush); Minnesota (45-54 Kerry); Iowa (48-51 Kerry); Michigan (48-51 Kerry); Wisconsin (48-51 Kerry); Ohio (52-48 Bush); New Hampshire (49-51 Kerry); and Florida (52-47 Bush) (and Alaska and Hawaii, but there are no results yet from either). That means that by the current reckoning, Bush has 210 dead and 66 possible and Kerry has 188 dead and 60 possible, with another 7 votes going who-knows-where. It’s all very much up in the air: anything can happen. But both Florida and Ohio look in the bag for Bush, which is vital.
I’m worried sick that the electorate have made the wrong decision, but so far it’s too early to tell. I hate democratic government: give me hereditary rule any day of the week. We’d know the next king from the day he was born.
