If you watched election during 2004 race, you would have noticed huge difference between exit polls and actual vote tally. This is reason. During exit polls every vote is counted no matter if you are white, black, man or woman. But with actual vote tally only minority voters vote that counts are ones who live in a white neighborhood.

Does this mean that democrats could easily ask for a re-count? Yes, problem is most of machines used in Ohio were voting machines -- which did not give out receipts. Also Secretary of State Katherine Harris would have to agree to recount, which she would not do because she was one who excluded more than 179,855 votes.

So what is next for Democrats? I don't know, but something has to be done with Civil Rights in this "great" country of ours.

Because of our discomfort or, in many cases, disgust, we try to legislate them out of existence. The courts, and culture at large, will not allow us to get rid of them. All we have left is an ability to relegate them to a less-than-equal status by denying them an important social right: marriage. That denial, codified in 11 states on election night, 2004, revealed a fearful desire to legislate morality and conduct according to a pre-conceived idea of what is right and wrong for everyone regardless of their religious, moral, humanistic, or sexual preferences.

The morality crusade that was Prohibition was possibly most destructive social experiment ever attempted. Not only did it fail to stop use of alcohol, but led to rise of organized crime which still holds sway some 80 years later. We can successfully legislate against behaviors that hurt society -- murder, theft, violence and other dangerous acts -- because society benefits when its members are safe and protected.

To suggest that safety of world can be threatened by two same-sex individuals reciting vows of commitment before a local official is preposterous. The will to legislate against such an act reflects only our idea to withhold, to punish, to declare before all that it is only our values which matter and that we are right, divinely right.