"Congratulations to Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr. In both Indiana and North Carolina, Barr received more votes than Obama won those states by. In other words, if you believe that Libertarian votes would have gone Republican (something I think is much less true than it might have been 4 or 8 years ago), John McCain might have won one or both of those states had Bob Barr not been on the ballot.

Given that I had bet someone a beer that Obama would get over 340 electoral votes, I really needed one of those states to go Blue."