But on reflection, perhaps Florida is exactly the right place to settle this election.
"I am just pleased we are still here putting up a campaign in seats we may win … we are still in the game and are looking to regroup after all the dust has settled on this election," he said.
But once the dust has settled on this election – which has proved mould-breaking in so many ways – it would be good to take stock, and hold a genuine debate about what we want from – and for – our public figures and their spouses.
"There is still a suspicion that neither party appears well-suited to the trauma of defeat and that what Nigeria needs after the dust settles on this election is not just an effective government, but an effective opposition," says Anthony Goldman, a Nigeria expert who heads the London-based PM Consulting firm.
When the dust settles from this election cycle, let it be said that the so-called "Tea Party" movement ended at the border of California because a maid decided, at great personal risk, to step out of the shadows.
But there's something that doesn't add up about Nate Silver, and then Clinton, taking it on the chin from political reporters and pundits for making the observation that the Comey letter may have settled the election.
Mayor Holzkamp said she would wait for a response from Mr. Spitzer before deciding how to settle the election.
A victory there, coupled with victories in Texas and Florida, would settle the election in Mr. Bush's favor, they said.
Hoping to settle the election in the the Republican-dominated legislature rather than in a courtroom, Florida legislators hired lawyers who told a special committee that that body was obligated to appoint Florida's electors itself.
And the final events that settle the election, tens of millions of them, will occur on the morning of November 8th, when people decide whether they are going to get out of bed and face their choices.
