There are still hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

What Rove knows and Democrats are only now just learning is that the endgame in an election isn’t the final tally; it’s framing the narrative in how the final tally is counted.

There are still hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

Right this minute — right now, go, seriously — contact the national media, plus every media outlet in the close states that you can find — and demand that they not call any results final until the results are actually final.

There are still hundreds of thousands of absentee and provisional ballots to be counted.

The perception that the uncounted votes aren’t important could congeal in the next 24 hours.

If we can get a genuinely partisan organization like Sinclair to pay attention, we can get ordinary newspapers and TV stations to listen.

Let’s email this to our friends, make our calls, and get some real pressure going.

Let’s Sinclair the holy hell out of Ohio. 

Let’s win the endgame this time.

FAIR’s media contact list is here.

Newslink’s complete media list, indexed by state, is here.

Ohio TV stations.  Ohio newspapers.  Ohio radio stations.

GOTV is done.  Now let’s Get Out The Media.

Other stuff… not a lot of good news out there.  Damn.

GOP is gaining roughly four seats in the house.  Senate looks firmly in GOP control.

Seven states are banning gay marriage.  Because that’s so damned important to our society.

Florida will now require parental notification before minors can get an abortion.  Which is really gonna help parental abuse victims a lot.

Incidentally, the two jackasses in robes who OK’d voter challenges in Ohio, favoring the GOP, are both nutjobs appointed by — guess — the GOP.

See, this whole separation-of-powers thing is fragile as hell.  And the courts are already more than half-filled with ideologues willing to skew the process.  If Bush gets to stick 3 right-wingers of his choosing on the Supreme Court, ratified by a GOP-controlled Congress…

Going over Ohio’s precincts.  My home state.  I know the place pretty well.  Can tell you the difference between Cuyahoga and Coshocton.

I don’t think anybody has made any projections.  I just did some math, based on the numbers at 4:15 am London time, which I guess is 11:15 pm back in Ohio.  Here’s mine, and I hate it:

We’re going to the courts.  Ohio is the next Florida.

Hope I’m wrong.

A lot of bloggers seem to still be saying that it’s still early in Florida, that when the heavy Democratic precincts of Broward and Dade come in, Bush’s unlikely 5-point lead will melt away.

Um… Dade and Broward are already in, at least mostly.  Broward has 906 out of 1044 precincts in as I write this; Dade has 802 out of 856.  Those are comparable percentages to the statewide count in progress.

Maybe the absentees — which Jeb is trying to delay counting — and some early-voter ballots will swing this to reflect something at least more reasonably approximating numbers from most pre-election and exit polls.

But my personal smell meter is going off.