Here is the Guardian (UK) coverage of the US election today. If Bush wins, I can just imagine how they will spin it:
Red Sox victory boosts Kerry
October 29: A World Series victory after 86 years for the Boston Red Sox cheers the Democrats.
Eminem song puts Bush in the dock
Labour gears up for Kerry win
Florida ballot And if it's a tie? Expect 'chaos'
October 29: Political scientists fear a new quirk that could threaten the country's electoral system: a tie.
Family photo diaries
We are following five US families in the week before America votes. See the gallery of pictures here.
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Guardian Unlimited's Sarah Left reports from Colorado in the final days before the US election.
State of change
October 27: Long a Republican heartland, Colorado is emerging as a key battleground in the race to become US president, writes Sarah Left.
Making every vote count
October 28: Colorado's voters may spark a transformation in US politics when they decide whether to scrap the winner-takes-all electoral college system.
28.10.04: Democracy starts here - mobilising the youth vote
The final week
Candidates mobilise armies for final push
With the presidential race deadlocked, what matters most in the final week of campaigning is the battle to get supporters to the polls. Julian Borger sums up the state of play.
Where they stand on key issues
What matters to US voters
Newspapers shift allegiance
October 28: At least 37 newspapers which backed Mr Bush in 2000 switch sides to John Kerry.
28.10.04: Germany's Bild goes Republican
25.10.04: Florida papers fail to back Bush
23.10.04: Bush sets wolves on Kerry
Bush has fallen victim to his own hubris
October 28, Sidney Blumenthal: In the end, US voters will not be frightened into becoming a nation that disdains decency.
28.10.04, Timothy Garton-Ash: Take two for democracy
US elections 2004: more comment and analysis
What the rest of the world thinks
Why Africa roots for Kerry
October 27: If Africans could vote in the US elections John Kerry would get a landslide, writes Rory Carroll.
Great expectations
October 27: France is likely to be disappointed by any Kerry administration, writes Amelia Gentleman.
What the world thinks of America
See the results in full of our unique 10-country survey of world opinion.
Squeezing votes from America's heart
October 27: With the US elections looking as if they might come down to the last few votes, George Bush is attempting to drum up support in the town halls and school gyms of small town America, reports Oliver Burkeman. (3m 28s)
Legal fight over voter eligibility begins
October 27: Ohio Republicans have challenged the eligibility of 25,000 registered voters, accusing Democrats of fraud.
The economy
Wars could cost US a further $70bn
October 27: George Bush will ask for $70bn in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year if he is re-elected.
27.10.04: One corner of Texas cares little for Bush
26.10.04: Battle for the economy
25.10.04: Living on borrowed time
Our US bloggers
Explaining the 'Anglosphere'
October 28: George Bush's coalition is bound by more than a common language, writes US blogger Glenn Reynolds.
Polling truth
October 26: Don't be confused by contradictory voter surveys. The clear message is that Bush is in trouble, writes US blogger Markos Moulitsas.
Bush goes with gut feeling
October 28: President skirts tricky questions on campaign trail.
Democrat campaign
Pardon my French
October 28: John Kerry seems reluctant to advertise the fact he has a French cousin. But when Brice Lalonde went to the US he didn't expect his relatives to ask him to go into hiding.
26.10.04: Clinton boost for Kerry campaign
Foreign policy
Inheriting a legacy of fear
October 26: New president faces domestic division, hatred abroad and an urgent need to act in the Middle East, writes Simon Tisdall.
Iraq
Kerry tackles Bush over Iraq looting
October 26: John Kerry assails the "unbelievable incompetence" of the Bush administration after it emerges that more than 340 tonnes of explosives have been looted from a storage facility in Iraq.
What the papers say
'The system is crying out for reform'
October 26, press review: Concerns are voiced over the voting process.
25.10.04: 'No issue comes close to the war'
Carter: Bush exploits 9/11
October 25: George Bush has exploited suffering, former president Jimmy Carter says.
Rivals stake all on Ohio
October 24: Paul Harris reports on the accusations and counter-charges being flung across the key swing state in the final, frantic full week of an increasingly bitter campaign.
Baghdad Blogger in Washington
October 22, Salam Pax spends a week with the neo-cons and asks if it's already too late for freedom in Iraq. |
