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U.S. Can't Do What Botswana Can: Deliver Vote Results Same Day
I couldn't resist this as an example of how desperate the MSM is for 'good news'. BTW Botswana is very well run by subsaharan African standards.
The U.S. is unable to do what countries like Botswana, a southern African nation of 1.6 million people, are capable of doing: delivering election results within a day.
That could be because we're a nation of 280,000,000 people. Just a thought...
Americans and the rest of us will be surprised that a country that sent a man to the moon 30 years ago can't give us the results of an election on the same day,'' said Klas Eklund, chief economist at SEB AB, the third-biggest Nordic bank by assets in Stockholm and a former adviser to the Swedish government.
Its almost a definition of MSM desperation that they have to use a quote from a tier 2 scandinivian banker get a positive spin on the US election - hilarious!
On Oct. 30, the ruling party in Botswana was reelected, winning 44 out of 57 parliamentary seats in a country where average income is less than 10 percent of the U.S. The opposition accepted the results that evening.
I think they inadvertantly highlighted the problem here.
Posted by: phil_b 2004-11-03
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=47667