Kerry Press Release on Ohio
From Yahoo:
Statement from Kerry Campaign Manager Mary Beth Cahill on Ohio
52 minutes ago
To: National Desk, Political Reporter
Contact: Chad Clanton or Phil Singer, 202-464-2800, both of Kerry-Edwards 2004
BOSTON, Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Kerry-Edwards campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill released the following statement:
"The vote count in Ohio has not been completed. There are more than 250,000 remaining votes to be counted. We believe when they are, John Kerry (news - web sites) will win Ohio."
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From Yahoo/AFP:
Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) refused to concede defeat to George W. Bush in the key swing state of Ohio, throwing television projections on Tuesday's hotly contested US presidential election into question.
The Kerry campaign rejected predictions by two networks -- Fox and NBC -- that called the midwestern state for Bush, saying that more than 250,000 ballots had not yet been counted and the president's only led by 100,000 votes....
[Cahill's] comments left open the possibility of a re-run of the legal challenges to the 2000 election in Florida which Bush eventually won by only 537 votes after the US Supreme Court ordered a halt to recounts.
The projections by Fox and NBC -- which were not repeated by the three other major networks ABC, CBS and CNN -- thrust Bush to within one electoral vote of winning re-election.
CNN reported that Ohio was too close to call with Bush leading Kerry by just over 100,000 votes, or 51 to 49 percent, with 93 percent of the vote counted.
If Bush is determined to have won Ohio, and without results from the seven other states not yet called, the president will be sitting on 269 electoral votes.
The winning candidate needs 270 electoral votes and if the Ohio projections stand, a Bush victory in any one of the other states -- Hawaii, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Wisconsin -- would put him over the edge....
In terms of the popular vote, Bush led with 51.4 million votes, or 51 percent, to Kerry's 47.8 million votes, or 48 percent, with 83 percent of the country's precincts reporting, according to CNN.
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