GOT UP: Saw that people are still wrangling. It looks to me as if Bush has won it, and I think that Kerry should consider whether he wants to concede gracefully or become a second Al Gore, only this time without the popular vote. I’m going back to bed.

UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan: “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.”

Stephen Green: “Bush has obviously won the popular vote. If he was ‘selected not elected’ in 2000, then why on Earth would the Dems want to try to put Kerry in via lawsuits in 2004?”

Will Collier: “If Kerry hasn’t admitted defeat by tonight, he’ll land squarely in the sore-loser category for the rest of his life–and he’ll take Edwards there with him.”

John Hillen: “A failure to concede by this morning can only mean the Dems, lacking anything to rally around for the next four years, want to keep the victim-magic going and will hang on long enough to create the auro of ‘another stolen election’ for their base.” I hope not. That’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap. They’d better get out while they can. . .

Cliff May: “Privately – by which I mean in the CNN green room — I’ve now spoken to two prominent Democrats who acknowledge not only that Bush won, but also that this was a huge election for Republicans.”

Reader Jim Hume (via email): “How does Andrew figure a 3.5 million difference is a ‘slim’ majority? It would be slim if there were only a hundred voters, but 3% of 110 million is not slim.”