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I know I said that yesterday would be the last time I wrote anything about the US Election… but I lied. Today is. Promise. I shall never mention John Kerry on this blog ever again. I can’t promise not to mention Bush 43, because his very nature suggests that I will need to rant about [...]

(thanks to Drew and Toothpaste for Dinner)

I promise that this is absoutely the last time that I will post anything about the US Election. The one that Bush won. Oh God… we’re all doomed! Anyway – that’s it for another 4 years. If you want to catch up on all of my election related blogging, [...]

Actually, having just posted that thing below, I found Wil Wheaton’s post about the result on his blog. Wil has been very vocal in his support for Kerry, and on November 1 he wrote that “I’m pretty sure that John Kerry will win this election. I am pretty confident that the majority of Americans are [...]

We’re all doomed!

How did he ever get elected in the first place? And what does it say about Americans that they picked him AGAIN?

Now, I’m sure there is something about it somewhere, but what happens if the Ohio votes that still have to be counted all turn out to be in favour of Kerry? It’s [...]

(from the still fantastic Rum and Monkey)

Possibly the funniest newspaper in the world (with the possible exception of the Grauniad), the Onion reports that the US “inspires world with attempt at democratic election“:

Observers from around the world report that they were inspired and moved by America’s most recent attempt to hold a public election in accordance with the standards of a [...]

So, eight hours after the polls closed, 5 states are still to be called for a candidate, which means there are a total of 47 electoral college votes at stake.

The candidates are currently neck-and-neck: Bush has 249 college votes (51% of the popular vote), while Kerry has 48%. Just ignore Nader with his 1%, until [...]

According to one of the pundits on the BBC’s election coverage that I’m watching at the moment, “this is unfolding like one of Ibsen’s well made plays…!”

It’s just gone from 39-3 to Bush to 77-66 to Kerry. (We are still quite early in the evening).

It’s all very exciting.

Simon Schama – yes him – says that [...]

Top sites that I’ve found / been using:

BBC News: Arguably the best of the best. I’ve already explained that they’ve got their top correspondants covering the election, and they’ve devoted a lot of space on the BBC News site to it. Favourite feature: A handy animated map showing how states are voting and the results the [...]

Wow – the BBC has really got its big hitters out for this one… If you head over to a page that BBC News has got with their correspondants updating regularly, you can see that they’ve shipped over their brightest and best to the States to cover the election results.

- Washington DC – Matt Frei [...]