Leader of the free world
The US Presidential Election Now that the dust has settled on the date when England celebrates Bonfire Night and Europe marked the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's collapse, let's highlight 2024's November 5th as the occasion of America's Presidential election. For weeks in the run-up to polling day, all of the experts eshewed predictions about the likely winner. The Presidential race was, by all accounts, too close to call. The question is - how in the modern age can all of America's psephologists and experienced pundits so badly misjudge their research as Republicans proved them wrong storming to victory with majority control of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. No need for recounts or for recourse to prolonged legal challenges, and - mercifully, no call to storm the heart of American democracy, the Capitol in Washington DC. Instead emphatic adjectives like momentous, historic and unprecedented appeared in respons...