It wouldn’t be fair to say that Washington, D.C., spent the past week swept up in “State of the Union Fever.” After all, with the Inauguration only a few weeks past, there’s something about a SOTU that seems … so yesterday. It’s been years since a president ascended the congressional pulpit to suggest that the State of our Union was anything other than straight-up applejack goodness for everyone and everybody, and the last one who…

2:15 a.m. … It all hung on Ohio or it may still hang on Ohio. Some media outlets have put Ohio in the Bush column, but it appears that the Kerry camp hasn’t given up all hope yet. Ohio’s 20 electoral votes may be up in the air for days. There are still ballots to be counted. But right now, it appears that George W. Bush will be re-elected and Sen. John Kerry of…