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If there’s anything that should be clear even to George Bush, it is that America is not solidly behind him. He has divided this country deeply and more than half the voters want him deposed.
DailyKos posts an email that is required reading:
Bush is currently leading in Ohio by 136,221
If there are 250,000 provisional ballots outstanding. The highest number I’ve seen.
And 90% of those ballots are good, as they were in 2000. That leaves 225,000 votes.
If 85% of those ballots prove to be for Kerry, about the number that Gore got in 2000. That leaves us with 191,250, giving us a lead of 55,029.
If there are only 200,000 provisionals, following the same calculation would leave us with a lead of 16,779.
If the provisional ballots are only 175,000 that leaves us with a deficit of -2,346 that will leaves us in a position to get an automatic statewide recount.
Or, to put it another way, an automatic recount is triggered by a margin of 0.25% or between 13,000 and 16,000 votes.

I’m sitting here in my t-shirt that says:”If you vote for Bush you can’t be my friend.”