Margin of error = landslide!

Kevin Drum studies the exit polls and comes to some interesting conclusions.

So: support was up among Latinos, the elderly, and high school dropouts. Support was down in the gay community and in small towns. Trying to weave some kind of coherent story around this data is more than I can manage, I'm afraid.

Exactly. For all the talk of Man dates, broad consensus, etc., this election could easily have gone either way.

Keep that in mind as the Bush/Rove/Cheney behave as though that three percentage point difference between the two candidates was more like 30 points.