Well, that was kinda scary, huh?

Those early returns almost blew a hole in my perfect primary prediction record! With 60% reporting though, the Kerry lead is pushing 20,000 votes and the networks have long since declared me right again.

Edwards will declare this a strong enough comeback effort to justify his continued presence in the race, which is fine. Dean's going to have a much harder arguement to make, though, finishing with less than 20% in a 'do or die' state - well, it was a do or die state. Then it wasn't.

But it really is, you know.

HoHo may push on, but the dream has died.