Newsday.com - Opinion Columnists - Jimmy Breslin - Why Kerry will beat Bush

One day last May, I assigned the election to John Kerry. I said it early, and often. As I looked more, I saw that it shouldn't even be close. I said that in this space more than once. Now I am so sure that I am not even going to bother to watch the results tonight. I am going to bed early, for I must rise in the darkness and pursue immediately an exciting, overdue project.

Besides, if I was up, so many people, upon seeing every word I said of this election coming true on television in front of them, would be kissing my hands and embarrassing me with outlandish praise. So I go to bed with total confidence. I will get up and stroll to other meadows. I invented this column form. I now leave, but will return here for cameo appearances. And I leave today as the only one in America who from the start was sure John Kerry would win by a wide margin."

I'm writing this with Ohio still up in the air (despite what Fox News might say to the contrary) but I have a real bad feeling....

UPDATE: NBC is with Fox in calling OH as Bush:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6363692/

CBS and ABC still have yet to make the call.

I wonder if it will be close to my prediction from earlier tonight:

CO 9 (Bush)
NM 5 (Bush)
OH 20 (Bush)

NH 4 (Kerry)
MI 17 (Kerry)
WI 10 (Kerry)
MN 10 (Kerry)
IA 7 (Kerry)
NV 5 (Kerry)
WA 11 (Kerry)

BUSH 271
Kerry 259