Any hope at getting an accurate accounting of who really won the election in Ohio now lies in the hands of one of the 100 members of the once august body of the U.S. Senate.
Frankly, there isn't much hope. But Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Chezch Republic, and the kind of leader we can only dream of in our empire, had something to say about hope:
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."
We have to make things make sense. We have to be rational, creatures of reason. Otherwise, we are lost. Hope means taking action. Call your senators tomorrow. Participate in democracy.
I got the Havel quote via William Rivers Pitt, editor of Truthout.org, who wrote a great piece on the whole contesting of the vote matter. I suggest you read Will's piece. It can be found here.