EMPIRE! The Vote Counters Defeat the Voters

• Bush's Campaign of Non - Stop Lies is Effective -  Reality Based Community Shook

 President Bush won four more years in the White House on Wednesday and pledged to "fight this war on terror with every resource of our national power." John Kerry conceded defeat rather than challenge the vote count in make-or-break Ohio. "I will need your support and I will work to earn it," the president said in an appeal to the 55 million Americans who voted for his Democratic rival. "We are entering a season of hope," he said. The president spoke before thousands of cheering supporters less than an hour after his vanquished opponent ended a campaign that brought him achingly close to victory. "We cannot win this election," Kerry said in an emotional farewell. The re-election triumph gave the president a new term to pursue the war in Iraq and a conservative, tax-cutting agenda at home -- and probably the chance to name one or more justices to an aging Supreme Court. He also will preside alongside expanded Republican majorities in Congress. The GOP gained four Senate seats and bolstered its majority in the House by at least two.  [more] and [more]

• Unhappy Democrats Must Wait to Get into Canada [more]

• A Mandate? This election had the largest number of people who have ever voted AGAINST a president. 1% more than 50% is not a mandate but a bare, thin, majority. [more]
  
• Parties Reach Near-Parity in Statehouses [more]