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TOLEDO, Ohio -- Ohio's presidential recount is complete and the final outcome is unchanged: President George W. Bush won. Democrat John Kerry did shave a few hundred votes off Bush's victory in the state. An Associated Press count of all 88 counties' unofficial totals shows Bush beating Kerry by 118,457 votes. No one expected the recount to change the winner of the election, but supporters of the process said they wanted to make sure that every vote was counted. Ohio and its 20 electoral votes tipped the race to Bush when Kerry conceded the morning after the vote. The state...

Family members who sit down today for Christmas dinner should try to ensure things stay merry by not bringing up the Nov. 2 presidential election. That's the advice of some specialists in family relations, who say family conflicts can be worsened under the stress of the holiday season, particularly after an election as divisive as the one last month. "There are still a lot of raw nerves after the election," says University of Florida psychologist Garrett Evans. Karl Pillemer, a sociologist at Cornell University, agrees. "This election was unusually divisive, since lifestyle issues overlapped with family issues. I haven't seen...

Morgan invited the visitors for an early Thanksgiving dinner, but the reporters had to return home, driving to the Jacksonville airport past Snoball stands, chicken farms and antiabortion billboards. LAKE BUTLER - Since George W. Bush captured Florida and the White House again, critics have fixed their sights on northern pockets of the Sunshine State and asked: How did the Republicans win so heavily in counties stocked with Democrats? Some wondered whether Florida's tally was corrupt, with one Internet site writing: ``George W. Bush's vote tallies, especially in the key state of Florida, are so statistically stunning that they border...

DES MOINES, Iowa - President Bush (news - web sites) defeated Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) in Iowa by roughly 10,000 votes — or less than 1 percent of the 1.5 million ballots cast, according to unofficial election results. The results released Wednesday by Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver showed Bush with 751,957 votes to 741,898 for Kerry, a margin of 10,059. While narrow, the margin was more than double the 2000 edge in Iowa, where Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) defeated Bush by 4,144 votes. Voter turnout was traditionally high in Iowa with 72...

Bush won, but he'll have to work within the system for whatever he gets, David Broder says. Funny way to start another 'dark age' David Broder Washington Post November 14, 2004 WASHINGTON – Some of my colleagues in the pundit business have become unhinged by the election results. The always-diverting Maureen Dowd of the New York Times wrote the other day that "the forces of darkness" are taking over the country. The voters' confirmation of Republican-led government brings with it "a scary, paranoid, regressive reality," Dowd said, with "strains of isolationism, nativism, chauvinism, puritanism and religious fanaticism." After a campaign...

I’m not surprised that a Party, who thinks George Soros represents American values, still can’t figure out what happened on November 2nd. No wonder Bill Clinton is still the star of the Democratic Party, he’s the only one who is even close to getting it… Three days after the outcome of the 2004 election became clear, former President Clinton had a message for Democrats on the brink of suicide: “Buck up. It's not that bad. You need to improve your image.” "This election presents a great opportunity for President Bush and a great opportunity for Democrats, and the two are...

As Air Force One made its final approach to Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday afternoon, White House senior adviser Karl Rove juggled a telephone, a pen and a piece of paper, anxiously copying down the first wave of exit polls that showed President Bush trailing John F. Kerry. "I saw this look on his face and then the phone died," said White House communications director Dan Bartlett. "He said, 'Not good.' " It was, Bartlett added, "like a punch in the gut." At that point, years of planning and preparation appeared in doubt. Skeptics in the Democratic and Republican...

Bush election was far from close Fri 05 Nov 2004 Page: A18 Section: Opinion Byline: Lorne Gunter "More Americans voted against George Bush than any sitting president in history." That was the silver lining Howard Dean, a former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, found in the American presidential election results. George W. Bush may have won, but Dean was comforting his supporters on the website Democracy for America (www.democracyforamerica.com) by pointing out that the 55.8 million votes cast for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry were the most ever cast against an incumbent president. Except they weren't. In 1992, 64.7 million...

Sorry if this has been posted already, but I really want to know what McAwful is saying. I remember him bragging about how Kerry and the Dems were going to have a good night. Where is this punk?

PARIS Nov 3, 2004 — As President Bush edged close to an election victory against Sen. John Kerry, France, Germany and other European countries he alienated during his first four years promised Wednesday to work with the new U.S. administration. Some European leaders expressed hope that Bush would reach out to the continent in his second term. But others gloomily forecast no major tack in White House policy and continued trans-Atlantic bickering. Markets reacted with relief to the end of the long, contentious race and the likelihood of a Bush win. Stock markets rallied across Europe and Asia, oil prices...

Americans woke up to a stalled presidential election Wednesday as four states kept either candidate from declaring victory. The winner of Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and New Mexico could not be projected as the hour neared dawn on Nov. 3. Ohio's 5.8 million voters will in all likelihood tip the election for either President Bush or Sen. John Kerry, as expected by Democrats and Republicans throughout the year. While the Buckeye State leans to Mr. Bush, provisional ballots in heavily Democratic precincts make a Kerry victory still possible, though not plausible. With the exception of New Hampshire going to Democrats, the...

Also a few Senate polls: SC-DeMint+11 NC-Burr+5 PA-Specter+19 FL-tied Numbers are uninteresting other than the tie in Arkansas which is not accurate. They claim that Bush's support in rural areas has dropped by 24% in the last week. That's just not possible. There is error in any poll, but that's bizarre. In Florida these numbers represent a slight move towards the President, and Mel Martinez. In Ohio there has been a swing of 5 points towards the GOP in the final week. Bush is showing huge, expanding leads among church goers, and pro-lifers. The gay marriage law on the ballott...

Stanford Electoral Predictor - Bush 84% Chance of Re-Election. Kerry 15% Chance of Winning.

Bush up on Zogby, Rasmussen, TIPP. RCP averages show stronger lead in Florida AND NEW LEAD IN OHIO! If you vote, Bush will win. Go vote!

About the only bad thing about this poll is the figures for Florida which has Kaerry ahead +5, more than the direct opposite to the Quinnipiac poll that came out this morning with President Bush ahead by 8 points! Overall, that leaves Prsident Bush nicely ahead overall at Reaclearpoliics at Florida, Ohio, Wisconson, Iowa, New Mexico and Nevada. http://realclearpolitics.com/ A very comfortable position to be in going into tomorrow's elections. President Bush will win.

From the Wall Street Journal (courtesy of the Note): "Bush advisers noted late movement toward the Republican ticket in Ohio; one senior Kerry adviser, after days in which the campaign had been especially bullish on the state, predicted Florida's 27 electoral votes might be easier to grab than Ohio's 20."

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OHIO Bush 48% Kerry46% FLORIDA Bush 50% Kerry 46% Nader 1% PENNSYLVANIA Kerry 47% Bush 46% NEW JERSEY Kerry 42% Bush 42% Nader 1% GEORGIA Bush 55% Kerry 41% Nader 1% Check the website for updated information at Strategic Vision

The latest NY Times/CBS poll has President Bush up by 48-45. The "internals" of the poll provide even worse news for John Kerry. For example, John Kerry has a 41% favorable, 47% unfavorable rating. This is his worst rating ever. President Bush has a 48% favorable, 41% unfavorable rating. That is his best rating since last December. Undecided voters lean to President Bush 50%-47%, validating the Pew finding and calling the Gallup number into question. 66% of Bush voters strongly favor their candidate. 50% of Kerry voters strongly favor their candidate. By a 49%-34% margin, voters expect President Bush to...

Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser called the race for Bush. "We're ahead," he told reporters in Cincinnati, Ohio, the last campaign stop Sunday. "We will win Florida and Ohio. We will take at least two or three or four states that were won by (Democrat Al) Gore in the last election."