Reply #3: Check out the threads in DailyKos about this...

[regnaD kciN]

...the scenario may not be played out yet, despite all appearances.

We'll know more by the 13th, when the Ohio provisional ballots are counted. If the margin has been reduced to a reasonable number (Kos speculates under 40K), there may well be calls for a recount -- and not from the Kerry campaign this time (which wouldn't be a good P.R. move) but from ordinary Ohio citizens.

Apparently, Ohio has a very clear-cut procedure under which it is easy for a relative handful of voters to request a full hand recount...and said procedures don't contain the ambiguities that allowed Cruella Harris and the SCOTUS to block a full recount in 2000.

Needless to say, should the result of any such recount show Kerry has won, his "concession" matters little -- he still gets the 20 EV.

Now, none of this may pan out. For one thing, the provisional count may end with Bush still too far in the lead for a recount to make any sense. But I wouldn't be shocked to learn that the game is not yet over, and we may get one huuuuuuuge "November Surprise" -- a free vacation back to the Land of the Hanging Chad.