We Have a Whiner

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John Edwards just refused to concede. This is after Senator Rum Blossom (D-Mass) caucused with candidate Kerry.

So I emailed RNC asking about Ohio.

This isn't about a few hundred votes. It's about winning the popular vote and a margin in Ohio of 130,000 votes.

In 1960, Richard Nixon refused to ask for a recount after he narrowly lost the Presidency to John Kennedy. Nixon said it would be bad for the country. I have a new-found appreciation for Richard Nixon.

Good frigging night.

More:

Eugene Volokh observes that Bush's "51-48 popular vote margin, while far from a blowout, is larger than the 1976 Carter-Ford margin, or the 1968 Nixon-Humphrey margin, plus of course the famously close 1960 and 2000 margins."

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