Electoral Bullet Was Dodged

An article in the Wall Street Journal points out that if Kerry had gotten about 75,000 more votes in Ohio, he would have been elected even though Bush got 51% of the vote to his 48%. Bush would have carried 30 states, picked up seats in the House and Senate, and the question of who has a "mandate" would have really been up in the air. This was caused by heavy Bush support in the states he carried coupled with narrow Kerry wins in such states as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. What a mess that would have been.