OK, one last thing out of the Kerry “Meet the Press” transcript (I’m running out of transcript, so it had better be):

The difference in this race was 18 electoral votes, 50,000, 60,000 people changing their votes in one state. That is a mandate for unity, not a mandate to go rushing off to change Social Security, not a mandate to ignore the fiscal crisis of our country, not a mandate to sort of pick some ideological hot buttons and start punching them. It is a mandate, as I said in my concession speech, to bring the country together, find the common ground and do things that we need to do to strengthen America. And there is a long list of those things.

So, this would be Kerry’s line if he’d been up by those 18 electoral votes?