We Few Angry Lights

In every democrat's heart is the knowledge that there will be no provisional vote miracle in Ohio over the next few weeks. No matter how fast they run down the platform waving their arms about, convinced they are not too late, the train has indeed pulled out of the station. Throughout the last few weeks the smart money was as bewildered as the rest of us, but in the end, the ugly truth is that most Americans feel most comfortable with an idiot than a cypher. So every man, woman and child in America is stuck with Bush, and the world is stuck with the consequences.

One consequence is the possibility of a 2008 Hilary Clinton campaign; and if that gathers any momentum at all, it will be one hell of an election. But let us not start hand-waving just yet...a country happy not just to elect but to re-elect the horribly atavistic George W Bush is unlikely to fill its heart with enough progressive thoughts in the next four years to allow a woman in their beloved White House...right?