Things I Think About On Four Hours Sleep The Day After Election Day

10) And I'd have four more years to talk about Middle East politics, the War on Terror, and US foreign policy.

11) The deathknell for considering Zogby the preeminent pollster. He got so many state races wrong, by significant margins in the 2004 campaign that it makes you wonder whether the better indicator is simply tack 4.5% to the GOP candidate regardless of the state when he produces his figures. That's a significant bias on his part, and he has never fully explained why he is so wrong, so often. Also, there's reports that he oversampled women and undersampled Hispanics and non-English speakers, particularly in Florida.

12) That Kerry is conceding the election at 1PM ET speech (changed to 2PM ET, after article originally posted). Good for him. He realizes that he cannot overcome the huge margins in Ohio, and significant margins elsewhere that would give him enough electoral college votes. He doesn't have the popular vote, and fighting for the electoral college would smack of hypocrisy considering that is how VP Gore tried to win in 2000 - and Bush won despite coming up short in popular vote.

13) Time to reevaluate how the Democratic party treats foreign policy and ethics. Win at any cost when you're fighting a war should not and cannot mean undermining your opponent for political gain. There are distinctions with differences and there are ways to criticize without being unpatriotic. The Democratic party failed to make those distinctions and criticized the Administration, the soldiers fighting the wars, and all but called the Administration traitors.

14) John Thune won the South Dakota Senate race, while Mel Martinez won the Florida Senate slot. Big gains for the GOP, and devastating to the Democrat party hopes to split Congress. This is further evidence of the DNC failure to address policy in a meaningful way. Terry McAuliff may be the next big DNC casualty. On his watch, the Democratic party has lost ground in Congress, governorships, and the Presidential votes.

15) The US repudiated the feeling that the US should kowtow to foreign opinion. Some foreign papers are claiming that the election is somehow a failure because we did not know the result last nite - that this is an archaic system that throws the world into chaos because the rest of the world doesn't know the results. For starters, the US election was known last nite to everyone except the candidate on

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