Heh. My man Montana Burns is refusing to concede and is not giving interviews.
You know, in all seriousness, it is very hard. I've never been involved in an election this close...heck, I worked on the Dukakis campaign...so I know a "Thump'n"...when you are within a couple of thousand votes it still must seem possible. In spite of my hopes for both Tester and Webb...I do understnad why they don't want to give up. I remember Florida...Gore won the majority nationally, losing by a handful in Florida was unbelievable 9you can argue about how badly they ran the campaign, but that couple of thousand votes made hundreds of bad decisions manifiest).
I mean, when you think of it, in VA for example, the Macacca statement now looms large...at least as a starting point. That may have been the last straw for 3500 voters, and there you are. It is all small stuff when it is this close. It can all be second-guessed and endlessly reanalysed...again, think of how the Dems. still kick themselves over Gore...or what Kerry could have done to get himslef 35,000 more votes in Ohio.
Carter, McGovern, Dukakis, Goldwater, Mondale...their people never had to ask such questions...the disasters and their consequence were all large and had big implications.
Anyway, however much I dislike Allan, I do feel for those who have put so much into the campaign. I suspect he will soon do the classy thing. I'm not sure about Burns...he always struck me as a mean, little man...but adversity can bring out the best in everyone.
And, at the same time, it is democracy at work...and it may not be pretty, but thankfully it does, for the most part.
