US political blogger Glenn Reynolds has filed his latest column for Guardian Unlimited:
As I write this, it's all over bar the shouting, though the shouting may go on for a while. Kerry supporter Andrew Sullivan writes:
"IT'S OVER: President Bush is narrowly re-elected. It was a wild day with the biggest black eyes for exit pollsters. I wanted Kerry to win. I believed he'd be more able to unite the country at home, more fiscally conservative, more socially inclusive, and better able to rally the world in a more focused war on terror. I still do. But a slim majority of Americans disagreed. And I'm a big believer in the deep wisdom of the American people. They voted in huge numbers, and they made a judgment."
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