Ann Coulter says Colorado voters "traded voter registrations for crack cocaine." But why is she so angry at Karl Rove? Did he diss her somehow?

Were Colorado voters really swayed by moral values? Perhaps, but a breakdown of the Bush/Kerry numbers by county show additional trends. I've broken down the vote and provided some non-expert analysis over at 5280.

Some Boulder votes are still outstanding but with most counted, 70% went for Kerry. In Denver and Pitkin (home to Aspen), 69% went to Kerry. Kerry's biggest win was in San Miguel county (home to Telluride) where he got 72% of the vote.

My non-expert analysis:

I’d say the densely populated and higher-end resort towns went for Kerry, as did Boulder with its highly educated voters. The rural, suburban, lower-economic and military-populated counties went for Bush.

Colorado is overwhelmingly Christian state-wide, so I'll leave it to the experts to figure out how that factored in.

Bump and Update: Looks like a lock for Harry Reid. He says he has the 30 votes and Chris Dodd is backing him.

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With yesterday's defeat of Tom Daschle's re-election bid, it's not too early to begin asking who will replace him as minority leader of the Senate. Some names we've seen around: Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.); Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.).

TalkLeft supports Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, primarily on his record, yet also because he comes from a solidly Democratic state and Republicans won't be able to successfully target him for removal the way they did Daschle.

Dick Durbin is one of the Senate's strongest advocates for civil liberties and fighters against torture and Pentagon abuses in Congress. He is a strong critic of the Patriot Act. He was one of the Senate conferees on the 9/11 Intelligence Reform bill and didn't cave to the House bill with its provisions for more law enforcement powers and death penalty eligible offenses. He supports medical marijuana and is a harsh critic of John Ashcroft. He opposedSen. Diane Feinstein's anti-gang bill. He enjoyed Fahrenheit 9/11.

Update: Kerry's speech. Three words. A class act.

John Edwards: He is our future, embrace him.

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Bump and Update: Edwards and Kerry are speaking.

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It's delayed until almost 2 pm. I'm going back to work, here's a place for your reactions.

One more thought: The claim that Bush has a mandate is a joke. This was a squeaker. 51% voted for Bush. That means 49%, virtually half of the country, opposes him.

Many in the blogosphere are urging acceptance of the election results and, now that Kerry has conceded, an endorsement of support for George Bush because he is our President.

TalkLeft will not support George Bush. We recognize that he is our President, but as our mission statement states, we will continue to expose the injustices in his Administration.

TalkLeft believes George Bush has been a terrible President, perhaps the worst ever, and objects to virtually every policy he has implemented.

The thought that he will pick the next Supreme Court Justices is terrifying. How many more will die in Iraq and elsewhere because of his unilateral decision to invade Iraq while terror threats from al Qaeda abound?

Our criminal justice system is not fair. Innocent people are languishing in jails and on death row. Mandatory minimum sentences and the wrong-headed drug war are locking up thousands needlessly at great expense to the taxpayer. Our civil liberties are under siege as never before, largely due to Bush's appointment of John Ashcroft as our Attorney General.

Bush's faith-based programs and continual expression of his personal religious beliefs are offensive to those who do not share those beliefs and those who value the separation of church and state mandated by our Constitution.

TalkLeft will continue to bash Bush, fight Bush and mock Bush--he may be our President but he does not have our support.

Confirmation on both NBC and CNN: Kerry has called Bush to concede. Kerry's concession speech will be at 1 p.m. ET from Faneuil Hall in Boston. At 3 pm, Bush will give his victory speech.

What a sad day for America.

Bush claimed victory early today, Kerry says he won't concede until all the Ohio votes are in.

Bush got two big lifts: one from the "latino" vote (CNN's term)--he got 40% of this voting block as compared to 35% in 2000.

The other: Karl Rove got out the evangelicals. When you hear about this block, it will be in terms of the "value voters," shorthand for voters with values.

New Mexico won't finish counting until tomorrow - too many absentee or provisional ballots.

Some networks are blasting blogs for publishing exit poll results. Just another sign that blogs have arrived.

'A long night, but we've waited four years for this victory we can wait one more night!

'We promised you that every vote would count and every vote will be counted. We will fight for every vote. You deserve no less."

Beautiful. Just what I wanted to hear. Now I can go to sleep.

I'm calling it a night. It's a cliff hanger. Disappointing but it's not over. Bring on the lawyers. Just heard that David Kendall, Clinton's lawyer from the impeachment trial, may be in put in charge. He's a terrific lawyer and would be a great choice.

The owner of the Boston Red Sox has his private plane ready to go to take the lawyers to whatever state they need to go to.

Bad news. Gov. Arnold just announced that Proposition 66 lost in California. So if your third strike is stealing a piece of pizza, you can still go to jail for life.

For the first time, CNN has called a state "Green." Green means it's too close to call. And we won't know for 11 days.

CNN says there are 387,000 actual votes not counted plus up to 250,000 provisional ballots out. So it's too close to call. Bush is only 100,000 votes ahead.

Ohio has a recount law. It's automatic if the parties are within .25%

Send your support to John Kerry....let him know you don't want him to give up until every last vote in Ohio is counted.

The campaign saved $45 million for post-election challenges. Smart thinking.