AP: Bush Wins Race As Kerry Concedes
The Hankyoreh concedes as well:
Kerry really need to be given a hand here — he could have dragged this thing out, but he chose not to, and for that, he’s owed a world of thanks. A lot of us on the right may have written some rather unflattering things about the man during the course of this campaign, but any man who has been a public servant for as long as Kerry has been deserves the respect of the nation. Especially now.
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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
-H.L. Mencken-
Conceding was certainly the right thing to do. Would Bush have done the same, had the situation been reversed?
It still amazes me; for an election which was hailed as being so important, it was still, statistically, a pretty low turnout. Record breaking numbers perhaps, but a pretty low turnout percentage-wise. I suppose it’s no different than any modern democracy, but it still surprises me a little.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0764586.html has lots of stats of US voter turnout. (80% a few times in the 1800s, but never more than 66% in the 20th century)
makhno — some political theorists actually believe that low voter turnout can be a good thing in that it suggest a stable system in which there’s a fair degree of public unity, i.e., everything’s running smoothly. High voter turnouts are associated with public division and political crisis, as was probably the case here, as it was in the previous high in 1968.
I should have sold my STEM stock last week. Damn polls!