US politics today is as absurd as Britain's under George III | Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Comment is free | The Guardian
US politics today is as absurd as Britain's under George III | Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Comment is free | The Guardian: "It could have been much worse. Most Europeans, even conservatives, were dreading the prospect of President Mitt Romney, an obvious fraud whose voters are angry ageing white men and whose sponsors are half nasty and half crazy. And there was an almost worse prospect, of a rerun of 2000 and the grotesque farce in Florida – or alternatively of Barack Obama winning a majority in the preposterous electoral college but not a majority of the popular vote, and having his legitimacy challenged by the Republican for the next four years."'via Blog this'
