The President not only has won the electoral vote, he won the popular vote by 3.5 million votes (remember how much the Donks have howled about this over the last 4 years? I wonder how important it will seem to them now…). The post seems to have disappeared now, but I saw a quote last night that the “heartland, tribal, wise, had once again shaken itself, looked around, and said, ‘$%@! Yes, we’re going to stand up to those terrorist thugs and fight this war!’” Or words to that effect.

NRO’s John Hillen nails it:

It is a victory of historical proportions for Bush. Decisive control of the House and Senate and a popular majority of 3.5 million that even Michael Moore must notice. Kerry is an experienced politician - he doesn’t want to be President in that environment even if every provisional ballot in Ohio was accepted and went 100% Kerry - which it can’t of course.

In the grand tradition of quoting smarter and more eloquent people to say what I wish I’d said, I’ll let The Horserace Blog speak for me on the network “coverage”:

Shame on them. Shame on all of them. What lousy coverage tonight (Fox’s was atrocious!). What lousy exit polls, what stupid, slavish reliance on these exit polls in the early part of the evening. What generally inane babbling from start to finish. Nobody in the MSM had a single decent thing to say all year. They spent their time pondering the effects of “new voters,” of the Redskins loss yesterday, of Kerry’s picture at NASA. They paraded campaign flack after campaign flack, peddling nothing but the same empty talking points, every hour on the hour — and chalked it up to “analysis” or “debate.” They had nothing intelligent or insightful to say about anything for 13 months. They slavishly paid attention to polls with bad methodology, and poll “averages” that were not even close to it. What a puffed up, egotistical bunch of dunderheads. They had their heads up their you-know-what since the Dean “phenomenon,” and though this denouement disgusts me, it does not surprise me.

What a cheap, cheap ploy at the end of the race. It caps off what I believe to be just a generally pathetic coverage of this horserace. I cannot express how despicable I find this whole thing.

Man, I’m tired. But what a great election this was, and what a great demonstration of the wisdom of American voters when it matters most. Don’t think that it’s an accident that in a year of record voter turnout, this president broke the great Ronaldus Magnus’ record for votes received by a presidential candidate. Congrats again, to our President (again!) and to our great country!