You do realize that candidates are chosen by Electoral vote and not by popular vote? In a district, if you win by one vote or a million, it is only worth the electoral votes for that district.
Yeah, it's a fucked up system that does all sorts of bad things to our democracy.
That said, Bush could have done the stand up thing, said, "The people have spoken and I'm not going to use some 18th century anachronism to reverse their decision".
Instead he stole the election, missed the biggest attack on America, ever, got us into a war for no good reason, brought us two recessions and pretty much proved the voters got it right. This guy never should have been president.