I was ready for it all to end, regardless of winner. Then I read this

"When [the Republican riot] was over, the rule of the mob was triumphant. The three canvassers voted to walk away from the recount whose tally would likely have led to Al Gore’s victory over George Bush in Florida and in the presidential election. One of its members, David Leahy, acknowledged the protests were a factor in his decision. The other two, perhaps fearful of their safety, declined all interviews. As the mob celebrated its victory, its Republican Party masterminds transferred their mobile home/base of operations to Broward County, where they employed the same tactics against that county’s canvassers on Friday.

Some conservative pundits have gone so far as to celebrate the triumph of mob rule over democracy and rule of law. Paul Gigot, a commentator for PBS’s “NewsHour” and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, praised what he termed the “bourgeois riot.” Gigot reporting from the scene, witnessed John Sweeney, a visiting GOP monitor, telling an aide, “Shut it down,” and thereby inspiring what he called the “semi-spontaneous combustion” that forced the counters to “cave in.”

A loyal conservative, Gigot was either unwilling to mention or unaware of the fact that the riot had been pre-arranged by Republican operatives nearby. Nevertheless, he got the sequence he observed right. “The Republicans marched on the counting room en masse, chanting ‘Three Blind Mice,’ and ‘Fraud, Fraud, Fraud’ Fraud’ … let it be known that 1,000 local Cuban-American Republicans — [a group to whom violence as an instrument of political intimidation is not exactly unknown]— were on the way.”