I posted this in comments over at Backup Brain, and people seem to like it. Yet despite a supernatural ability from Tom and Dori to write anything from PowerPoint to a SCSI driver purely in JavaScript, their site doesn't let you link to individual comments, so I'm reposting it here.

Nixon won re-election in 1972 with 49 states. Two years later, his presidency collapsed.

Reagan won re-election in 1984 with 49 states. Two years later, scandal had crippled it to the point that had Reagan faced the 1973 Congress, he too would have had to resign. As it was, his administration achieved nothing of consequence after the name "Oliver North" became a household word.

This administration pushed off a lot of bad news until today or later. Regardless of ballot counting - which is not over - don't think the battle is over in any way. Every statistic I've seen so far shows not that most of the country agrees with the Bush administration, but that several million who do not (particularly in blue states), and the kids most likely to be targeted for a draft simply did not show up yesterday.

The people who show up make the decisions.

I'll have more later in the week, when iTunes and iPods are discharged from my brain.