Right now, 98% of the Ohio vote has been counted and Bush leads by 130,000 votes. His margin has been going up as the last votes are counted. Other estimates are that there are only 175,000 provisional ballots.

Kerry insists that the provisional ballots will give him the state. Edwards made a "every vote must be counted" speech reminiscent of Al Gore and the ravages of Genghis Khan.

As a country, we need for the election to have a quick, clean victor. Especially since Bush has 51% of the popular vote with 91% counted. Gore at least had a close loss in Florida and a majority in the popular vote. Kerry's Ohio loss is big enough at 2% that there will be no automatic recount and he lost the popular vote which robs him of all legitimacy.

Something to keep in mind - Bush got the highest percentage of the popular vote of any President since his father won in 1988. Clinton never got 50% of the vote.

The networks should be calling Nevada and New Mexico any time. Bush has a big lead in both. The first state to be called will give Bush his 270 electoral votes. Bush may declare victory at that point.

NBC keeps stressing that they do not change how the votes are counted. They only make projections based on the totals. Maybe they have been reading Kos who already complained about the networks.

Meanwhile, in the war on terror: A Dutch filmmaker who outraged members of the Muslim community by making a film critical of the mistreatment of women in Islamic society was gunned down and stabbed to death Tuesday on an Amsterdam street.