So much for another epic presidential drama...

CNN.com - Kerry calls Bush to concede - Nov 3, 2004

It seems like this is it folks. We did not win. Not only did we give up the White House, we gave up our legislature, too. Now the Republicans have carte blanc to maraude for at least two years.

That means no criminal act will go punished. That means we have just ceded our rights to a party who would rather put you to death than listen to you.

Reflecting on the results since last night, I am torn between going negative or positive with my reaction. There are many ways to look at this, but the bottom line is that we lost. And we lost big.

Good news comes in one form only: The process worked, at first glance. What's most important in our republic is that the process delivers a true winner when the election is run fair and square. We won that battle this time. As Americans, the pride we feel for the system should supercede, in all instances, partisan rhetoric.

This one seems fair and square, although I still have a great amount of disbelief regarding the numbers. Maybe irregularities will begin to rear their ugly heads, but Kerry has ceded, so it matters little.