Divide and rule ... for now

Divide and rule ... for now

Bush may have steamrollered his way back into the White House, but his re-election will further galvanise the resurgence of progressive opposition, writes US blogger Markos Moulitsas

Wednesday November 3, 2004

George Bush has dismayed half the US public and, I'm sure, much of the world by apparently winning the election.

The race is not technically over. Ohio is not only desperately close, with hundreds of thousands of uncounted ballots technically still able to swing the election back to Kerry, but the number of voting irregularities in the state are guaranteed to make it a centre of litigation....