And now, let us reckon with CNN.

It's all been said, it's all worth saying again. No one, no one in the history of the American presidency has ever dominated the popular vote like George W. Bush did on Tuesday. On the matters that really count: national security and cultural security, there are no deep divisions.

The Federal Election Commission should look long and hard at CNN. The failure to call Virginia and the Carolinas early in the election, and later the refusal to call Iowa, New Mexico and most impotantly Ohio, when the mathematics were inescapable, were a gross and probably illegal attempt to influence voters. Wolf Blitzer was practically screaming for the Democrats to send in the lawyers. The so-called exit polls were even more blatantly and deliberately trumped up. Thanks to the pajamahadeen and the talk-radio warriors, the fraud neven had a chance of succeeding.

Now a word about John Kerry. He would have been a lousy President. But I will give him credit for peering into the abyss of lawsuits and taking a step back. Well done, John.