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Victoria Parks of Columbus, Ohio, left, weeps upon hearing about the Democratic challenge of Ohio's 20 electoral votes during the Defend Democracy Rally and Vigil in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005. President Bush's re-election triumph over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was not in jeopardy, but Democrats turned Congress' quadrennial counting of electoral votes into a battle over Election Day problems in Ohio, forcing the House and Senate to consider a challenge to the presidential count for only the second time since 1877. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Today’s NON-event in Congress has caused MASS demoralization in DUmmieland. Instead of some congressional uprising against the Ohio vote, there was a massive YAWN in both congress and in the media. All the handful of congressional loonies and Barbara Boxer accomplished was to put up a minor speedbump on the road to the inevitable result of Bush’s official notification of victory. No protests, little media coverage, and even less public interest. In fact, the vast majority of the public are completely unaware of the minor speedbump thrown up today. And the few who are aware of it, now look...

Live thread as the RATS challenge the certification of the Ohio electoral Votes.