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November 4, 2004


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Bush takes presidency

This time we didn’t have to wait through endless recounts and legal hand-wringing.

The television networks took their time calling the closest swing states for either President George Bush or the Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry, but when all was said and done — which was only at 2 p.m. yesterday, when Kerry gave his official concession speech — Bush had been re-elected as president. In addition, Republicans had picked up more seats in both the Senate and House of Representatives to incre…

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