You have to fight, for your right, to run this country
Alex Panagiotopoulos
Issue date: 11/4/04 Section: News
The election is not officially over.
Vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, in a 2:30 a.m. speech in Boston Wednesday morning, pledged to keep fighting until the last vote was counted.
"We waited four years for this victory," he said. "We can wait one more night."
The issue of Ohio's 20 electoral votes and the neck-and-neck race between President Bush and Senator Kerry made declaring a definitive winner in the election impossible on Tuesday night.
Surprisingly, there weren't any discrepancies in the state of Florida. The counting of Florida's approximately 90,000 absentee ballots, which is expected to continue until Thursday, Nov. 4, should have been an issue of major scrutiny. However, Bush was estimated to have a lead of about 300,000 votes in the state of Florida.
Bush, with 51 percent, won the majority of the popular vote, while Kerry won 48 percent. It was estimated that a record 120 million voters showed up to the polls. The day before the election, Reuters polls showed that 10 states were statistically tied in voter support, while nationally the candidates were tied at 49 percent each.
Jon Stewart, host of the late-night cable fake news program "The Daily Show," said on his special election-night show that there were three possible outcomes of the election: Kerry wins, Bush wins, or civil war.
Mike Gaughran, an Adelphi University sophomore and loyal Democrat, was despondent when reached early Wednesday morning.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't really disappointed," he said. "I'm so furious at the Bush administration for everything that has gone on, but also because I've poured so much time and energy into supporting the Kerry campaign."
Keith Voss Jun, Republican and Marist student, was not surprised to go to bed Tuesday night without really knowing who won for sure.
"I expected it to be really close like the 2000 election," Jun said. "I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a few days to find out who wins."
Vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, in a 2:30 a.m. speech in Boston Wednesday morning, pledged to keep fighting until the last vote was counted.
"We waited four years for this victory," he said. "We can wait one more night."
The issue of Ohio's 20 electoral votes and the neck-and-neck race between President Bush and Senator Kerry made declaring a definitive winner in the election impossible on Tuesday night.
Surprisingly, there weren't any discrepancies in the state of Florida. The counting of Florida's approximately 90,000 absentee ballots, which is expected to continue until Thursday, Nov. 4, should have been an issue of major scrutiny. However, Bush was estimated to have a lead of about 300,000 votes in the state of Florida.
Bush, with 51 percent, won the majority of the popular vote, while Kerry won 48 percent. It was estimated that a record 120 million voters showed up to the polls. The day before the election, Reuters polls showed that 10 states were statistically tied in voter support, while nationally the candidates were tied at 49 percent each.
Jon Stewart, host of the late-night cable fake news program "The Daily Show," said on his special election-night show that there were three possible outcomes of the election: Kerry wins, Bush wins, or civil war.
Mike Gaughran, an Adelphi University sophomore and loyal Democrat, was despondent when reached early Wednesday morning.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't really disappointed," he said. "I'm so furious at the Bush administration for everything that has gone on, but also because I've poured so much time and energy into supporting the Kerry campaign."
Keith Voss Jun, Republican and Marist student, was not surprised to go to bed Tuesday night without really knowing who won for sure.
"I expected it to be really close like the 2000 election," Jun said. "I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a few days to find out who wins."