November 4, 2008, 9:42 p.m.

Kevin,

All the networks are finding more and more tortuous language to find ways to not declare Obama the winner.

Based on the remaining returns both Florida and Indiana look good for Obama. Virginia is really tight, as is North Carolina. If McCain wins both of those, he actually will have a good night, relative to expectations. He’ll be a loser, but not quite as bad as expected.

I love how Jessica Yellin on CNN said that “reality” was setting in at McCain campaign headquarters and yet they’re keeping their supporters sealed off from any information, kind of like Sarah Palin through most of her life.

Zing!

—John

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John Warner and Kevin Guilfoile are the authors and illustrators of the no. 1 bestselling My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush. Warner is the editor emeritus of McSweeney’s, the author of So You Want to Be President?, and the proprietor of Tow Books. Guilfoile's first novel was the thriller Cast of Shadows. His second novel, The Thousand, will be published next year by Alfred A. Knopf. You can read past installments of the Guilfoile-Warner Papers here.

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