Good times were had at second-year College student Stuart Farrell's house yesterday, as he and his pro-Bush roommates celebrated the Republican presidential victory with beer and fun for all.
Drinking aside, Farrell said he was "pretty content" that Bush had won -- and not shocked.
"I'm actually not surprised," he said. "Kerry did a terrible job of expressing a clear difference from Bush, especially on the Iraqi war."
Farrell acknowledged that many others had been counting on a different outcome.
"After the polls came out, some people thought it looked like Kerry was going to win," he said.
But Tuesday night's election coverage showed that would probably not be the case.
At about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning, NBC officially projected that Bush would win Ohio, and Farrell started to relax, saying that the projection did not seem overly optimistic to him.
"I tried to stick with the networks, because CNN leans toward Democrats," he said. "I felt like the networks were the most honest."
Farrell stopped watching at 2:45 a.m., "when a couple of [other] stations had called Ohio for Bush, which meant he definitely won."
Bush's victory brought happiness to Farrell, but it also brought hard feelings from Kerry supporters.
"One of my best friends told me if I said anything he's going kill me," Farrell said.
If he manages to stay alive, Farrell said he is looking forward to the next four years.
"The most important reason to be happy is the Iraq war," Farrell said. "I think it would be devastating to switch commanders in chief at such a critical moment. I think pretty soon Iraq will be settled and on its way to becoming a strong democracy."
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