Who Needs Sleep Cnn Is Calling

Juan Cole 11/03/2004

Who Needs Sleep?

CNN is calling Michigan, Minnesota and Hawaii for Kerry. The total is 249 Bush, 242 Kerry at 2:35 am. Kerry may well get Wisconsin, as well, giving him 252. If he gets Nevada, it would be Kerry 257 to Bush’s 254. Ohio settles it. The question is whether Ohio settles it sometime Wednesday (with Bush pulling ahead so far that the provisional ballots no longer matter) or on November 13.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Follow him at @jricole. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires.