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I found myself asking this question this morning when it looked like we were going to have another "election that never ends."

It turned out to be another surreal experience just watching it on TV. Projections were made early on with actual projections like "Kerry 52 %, Bush 48 % with 0 % precincts in." I'm not making that up. Leave it to TV news organizations to make a prediction based on no official information.

One announcer said that Bruce Springsteens support of John Kerry didn't help get the youth votes since young people didn't turn out and vote the way Kerry's camp had hoped. While Springsteen is still hugely popular and certainly has some young fans, he's in his fifties and I don't recall the last time a middle aged man was able to lead a youth movement.

"Hell, no! We won't go! Until we check our HMO!"

If they plan on attracting the youth vote they should probably try to get someone in their age group like Blink 182.

The election marked the last for NBC's Tom Brokaw who is stepping down from that network's anchor desk in December. That's too bad because Brokaw is still a sharp, professional newsman who doesn?t push his own agenda.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a plan for Larry King to retire. It was kind of embarrassing watching King work as he became the Admiral Stockdale of the CNN news desk.

Not to say Larry's old, but a couple of years ago he had 60-year old Paul McCartney as a guest and made Paul look hip. Heres an actual quote from Larry on that show: "You know Paul, we have a lot in common. I'm from Brooklyn and you're from Liverpool."

Early this morning I heard Brokaw say that the White House was mad at him because they were being cautious and not calling Ohio for Bush, thus delaying their ability to go out and publicly declare themselves the winners. It's been a while since I've read the Constitution, but I don't recall the Founding Fathers saying anything about NBC News being the ones to determine the outcome of elections.

President Bush apparently was not following the election results on TV since NBC's Brian Williams stated that "Aides say the president is not glued to the TV" although that could've been because he was accidentally glued to the refrigerator instead. Or he might not have been glued to the TV because Spongebob Squarepants wasn't on yet.

Now John Kerry has conceded defeat and George W. Bush is finally elected as our president.

Once again, on election night I found myself asking the same question that I wind up asking myself every four years.

"Are these the best two people we can come up with?"