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> Open letter to the BBC

20 November 2005, 20:03

It was probably just a wishful dream, but I seem to recollect staying up watching BBC’s Newsnight on the night of the US election results. Paxman was crowing about the downfall of the Republicans and Frumm (? the Shock & Awe wordsmith) was looking crestfallen and had little in response. I went to sleep thinking that the world would be a happier place in the morning.

Of course, overnight, statistically impossible shifts took place from the exit polls to the vote "counts", and the misery that is Bush continues.

Am I the only one that smells three rats in the results of the US, UK and Ozzie elections results, where three unpopular leaders found themselves fighting rather useless opposition strawmen leaders? Truly the axis of evil.