Some folks are speculating today that EJ Pipkin’s run for Barbara Mikulski’s seat was to gain name recognition for a run in two years against Paul Sarbanes.

Pipkin ran a good race - for a Republican. I don’t say this because I agreed with his message, in my opinion he hawked his support to ban gay marriage and his support for the 2nd ammendment above all else, I say this because he won 34% of the vote to Mikulski’s 65%. Something tells me Sarbanes will be fighting a tight race in ‘06.

But in ‘06 the name I’m looking for on the ballot is Martin O’Malley, mayor of Baltimore, reelected to a second term. Governor O’Malley? There we go.

Other interesting Senatorial news: Coors lost? I wasn’t expecting that. Daschle lost? Was sort of expecting that.

Over at Instapundit, Ann Althouse is already wondering why Senator Kerry hasn’t conceded yet.

Gee, Ann, maybe because it is still TOO EARLY to call New Mexico, Ohio, and Iowa. Yeah, true, most likely these states will fall to Bush. But Ann misses the point - it isn’t over yet.

I think we’ve gotten WAY too used to elections being over in a day. Do you think Abe Lincoln got up the day after the election and said, “What did CNN say? Did I win? No? What about FOX?”

If the provisional ballots are registered voters, THEY MUST BE COUNTED.

I decided to take the pledge:

After the election results are in, I promise to:
: Support the President, even if I didn’t vote for him.
: Criticize the President, even if I did vote for him.
: Uphold standards of civilized discourse in blogs and in media while pushing both to be better.
: Unite as a nation, putting country over party, even as we work together to make America better.

In other news, my friend Lisa spent the last five or six months out in Indiana 8 trying to get John Jennings elected to the US House of Representatives. She failed, but not for lack of trying.

please tell me you’re kidding. please.

On the bright side: at least now Bush can’t pawn off responsibility for the Iraqi war on Kerry. Yep, Bush, you don’t get a hold on things soon, you gonna be held responsible.

Oh, who the heck am I kidding? This guy is the teflon president.

And just because Republicans control … the house, the senate, AND the white house, don’t expect them to take responsibility for the last two years either, not to mention the coming two years. They’ll all still blame it on Clinton. Hey - when it works, it works.

By that logic, let’s all us left-leaners blame Nixon for, oh, everything.