I’m going to bed. I spent all day at the polls in Camp Hill and New Cumberland, and I’d like to believe that the efforts of MoveOn, my sister, my mother, and, to a lesser extent, myself, helped win Pennsylvania for Kerry.
Right now it looks like all the networks are calling Ohio for Bush — but CNN is holding out. Their argument is that the margin is less than the number of provisional ballots and that if the margin continues to narrow, it could become significantly less than the number of provisional ballots. Ohio’s Secretary of State says that Ohio law allows for the counting of provisional ballots on the 11th day after the election. Absentee ballots must be postmarked by November 2, but don’t actually have to be received until the 10th day after the election. So, at least at this point, it looks like we’ll be waiting a week and a half before we know for sure.
In other Election Day news, there were highly disappointing results in 10 states which approved amendments to their state constitutions banning gay marriage. These days it looks like maybe we are one nation under God after all, but it’s a highly divisible nation, with liberty and justice for some.
Not that I’m bitter.