Farhad Manjoo has a good summary of convincing responses to the breathless “Kerry Won” theories that have been flying around.
I’m convinced, and not only because Manjoo quotes my grad school statistical methods professor Walter Mebane. The only thing I remember about that class was the seafood gumbo and curry potato salad at the semester-end picnic he brought the class to, so I wasn’t a particularly good student of his. I remember Professor Mebane to be wicked smart and a no-bullshit kind of guy, so I’d be predisposed to trust him on this even if he hadn’t written articles proving that Gore got hosed. Really hosed.
So no more speculation from these parts. I need time to cry.