Big election in the States today. Supposed to be a record turn-out of voters, which would make it the exact opposite of what happened here in Canada a few weeks ago. People here showed they didn’t want an election by making it the one with the smallest voter turn-out in our country’s history.

It doesn’t look like America will have that problem. The polls suggest that Obama is going to win, and maybe by a fairly large margin. We shall see, I guess. The fact that even McCain is distancing himself from Bush, seems to suggest that Americans, by and large, are tired of, if not Republican rule, then at least Bush rule, and are looking for a change.

It’s not even my country, but damn, it’s exciting.

Best of luck to all my friends States-side. I hope you all managed to get out and vote.

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