"Why are you all so miserable?"

We had two big victories last night. The one can be summed up in a graphic:

The other can be summed up with a collection of my favourite election quotes so far:

[this long one comes from my fellow victor/running mate, Christopias, and is the best out of all of them]

"My official prediction for tomorrow is a Kerry electoral win, Bush popular vote win � if only for the comedy. Can you imagine the pickle that I would be in, with the other conservative writers (you know the famous ones taken seriously) and the pickle the liberal and leftist writers would find themselves in? We cannot have called each other stupid for four years to swap talking points memos! I have saved all of mine if anyone wants to swap.

I do not know why Kerry wants to move into the White House anyway, it is a smaller house in a neighborhood that is not as nice as the one he lives in now. I am not into slumming, but from where I am sitting, you have to move to Brazil to step down."

"[S]crew the youth vote. That sure didn't work out well, did it?"

"First President Bush was misunderestimated.
Now he has been unredefeated."

"Is the gravity of the situation really well-served by a graphic that makes the two candidates look like they are shooting eye beams at each other?"

"Republicans expanded their hold on Congress in Tuesday's elections and Democrat Tom Daschle became the first Senate leader in a half century to be voted out of office."

[and in Mark's words] "Tom Daschle is a creature."

"U.S. stocks powered ahead Wednesday as reports surfaced that Senator John Kerry has called President George Bush to concede the presidential election."