[b4its2late]

Bush's margin of victory in the state that put him over the top in his re-election bid will be about 119,000 votes smaller than the unofficial margin of 136,000, the county election board figures showed. That means Kerry drew closer by about 17,000 votes.

Which, in English means Bush won by ONLY 119,000 votes. This article was not worth the time, wear and tear on the keyboard, nor the cyberspace it occupies.

[mware]

It is worthy to include as an example of shoddy journalism and sentence construction.

[blakep]

By reading that sentence it looks as if Kerry only lost by 17,000 votes.

Ridiculous.