Awake

I couldn't sleep, so I went back to watching election returns.

NBC is granting Ohio to Bush, giving him 269 electoral votes of the 270 needed. But the Kerry campaign refuses to concede, because not all the votes have been counted.

I noticed that CNN and Fox were more (ahem) conservative than NBC, not granting Ohio to Bush for quite some time, while NBC already had it in Bush's column.

I really need to get to sleep.

A Reminder

Amendment XXII

Passed by Congress March 21, 1947. Ratified February 27, 1951.

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.